Alliances, accession, sanctions, arms and aid — the outside decisions that set what is possible inside.
An embargo removes a supplier from the market and the price goes up. The cap that took effect in December 2022 tried something subtler: let the…
On 1 October 2022 Ukraine acceded to the Convention on a Common Transit Procedure. For a lorry crossing three borders, it replaced three sets of paperwork…
The seventh package of July 2022 added a ban on russian gold. It also did something less noticed and more important: it wrote explicit carve-outs to…
Ukrainian hauliers had always operated on a quota of permits. In 2022 the European Union suspended the quota entirely, and a lorry could run to any…
On 23 June 2022 the European Council granted Ukraine the status of candidate for European Union membership, four months after the application. It came with seven…
The early measures hit banks and technology. In April and June 2022 the European Union went after the revenue itself, with a coal embargo and then…
Within days, measures that had been discussed for years as theoretical options were adopted together by the European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada…
On 28 February 2022, five days into the full-scale invasion, Ukraine formally applied for European Union membership. Two weeks later it was answering the Commission questionnaire…
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