EU Sanctions Will Now Last a Whole Year, Not Six Months
Europe is finally learning how to avoid its own bureaucratic torture. Instead of gathering every six months to sweat over whether someone will veto the sanctions, they just quietly doubled the expiration date.
The 27 leaders of the European Council met in Brussels and decided they are tired of the semi-annual drama. Normally, keeping sanctions on Russia active requires a unanimous vote every six months—which basically meant a free ticket for blackmail twice a year. Now, the restrictions will be renewed once every 12 months, saving everyone a massive amount of stress and coffee.
Aside from making their own lives easier, they also promised that the first slice of the massive €90 billion loan will actually land in Kyiv by the end of June. They also threw some heavy shade at the Russian "shadow fleet" of oil tankers and demanded that North Korea stop sending its soldiers to the front lines.
They even addressed the fact that Russian drones have started crashing into houses in Romania. It turns out flying explosive metal into a NATO member's living room is, indeed, bad for regional stability.
The next challenge is seeing if they can stretch the sanctions timeline to infinity so they never have to argue about it again.
Source: European Council
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