- The EU will survive “Russia’s blackmail” of energy supplies and the looming long winter but only if it manages to maintain “unity, determination and courage,” Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin warned on Tuesday (13 September).
- Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the EU has agreed on several packages of sanctions that include asset freezes and visa bans on Russian oligarchs and officials, export controls, freezing central bank assets, disconnecting banks from the SWIFT messaging system and a ban on imports of Russian coal and oil.
- In their final document, citizens called for treaty change to establish an EU foreign policy that can face challenges such as the war in Ukraine.
Finland’s PM Marin calls for unity in light of looming energy crisis
