Alessandro Colombo, Professor of International Relations at the University of Milan and Head of ISPI’s Transatlantic Relations Programme. has just published a very interesting article on the website of Fondazione Feltrinelli.
On 25 February 2022, the Council of Europe decided to adopt Article 8 measures and suspended Russia, with immediate effect, from its rights of representation in the Committee of Ministers and the Parliamentary Assembly. On 10 March, the Russian Federation…
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The European Commission’s ‘Freeze and Seize’ Task Force, set up to ensure EU-level coordination to implement sanctions against listed Russian and Belarussian oligarchs, has now stepped up its action at international level. It will work alongside the newly established…
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The agreed measures are the following: – A full prohibition of any transactions with certain Russian State-owned enterprises across different sectors – the Kremlin’s military-industrial complex. – An EU import ban on those steel products currently under EU safeguard…
Confronted with growing instability, strategic competition and security threats, we decided to take more responsibility for our security and take further decisive steps towards building our European sovereignty, reducing our dependencies and designing a new growth and investment model for…
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“First, we will deny Russia the status of most-favoured-nation in our markets. This will revoke important benefits that Russia enjoys as a WTO member. Russian companies will no longer receive privileged treatment in our economies. We will also work…
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The European Commission welcomes today’s agreement of Member States to adopt further targeted sanctions in view of the situation in Ukraine and in response to Belarus’s involvement in the aggression. In particular, the new measures impose restrictive measures on 160…
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The Council today introduced further restrictive measures in view of the Russian Federation’s unprovoked and unjustified military aggression against Ukraine. The Council decided in particular to prohibit: the provision of specialised financial messaging services, which are used to exchange financial…
Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/353 of 2 March 2022 implementing Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine Council Decision (CFSP) 2022/354 of 2 March 2022…
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We, the leaders of the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States condemn Putin’s war of choice and attacks on the sovereign nation and people of Ukraine. We stand with the Ukrainian government…
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“Economic coercion’ under the proposal refers to a situation where a third country is seeking to pressure the Union or a Member State into making a particular choice by applying, or threatening to apply, measures affecting trade or investment. Such…
… what would have happened if the President of the European Union had given his place to the President of the Commission instead of sitting next to the President of Turkey. … what would have happened if the President of…
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/111 of 29 January 2021 making the exportation of certain products subject to the production of an export authorisation CELEX32021R0111ENTXT “Despite the fact that financial support has been given to increase production, certain vaccine manufacturers have…
All-Chapters Joint Leaders’ Statement on The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) We, the Heads of State/Government of the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) – Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines,…
EO on Addressing the Threat from Securities Investments that Finance Communist Chinese Executive Order
Dual use items The EU will soon be equipped with a set of new rules allowing for more accountable, competitive and transparent trade of dual-use items. These are a vast group of goods, materials, software and technology which can be…
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This report argues that the increasing use of economic coercion by both China and the United States poses a growing risk to businesses and undermines the integrity of the global trading system. Australian businesses, which have engaged in legitimate…
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The U.S. government’s response to COVID-19 has indeed prompted the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to broaden its interpretation of national security, particularly concerning the healthcare sector and associated supply chains. Historically, CFIUS focused on safeguarding…
DoD Today, the Department of Defense released the names of additional “Communist Chinese military companies” operating directly or indirectly in the United States in accordance with the statutory requirement of Section 1237 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal…
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Executive Order 13936 of July 14, 2020 The President’s Executive Order on Hong Kong Normalization 2020-15646
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This report is designed to follow up and expand on the findings of the High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation. It evaluates the current state of digital collaboration, focusing on aspects related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The report highlights urgent…
Brussels, 10 May 2020 The recent ruling of the German Constitutional Court put under the spotlight two issues of the European Union: the Euro system and the European legal system. We take good note of the clear statement of the…
