On Wednesday 15 February, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, presented the new package of sanctions against Russia, which Ms von der Leyen would like to see adopted before the 1st anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine, on 24 February.
“We are proposing new export bans worth more than €11 billion to deprive the Russian economy of key technologies and...