Sanctions – EUobserver

The report found there was a peak of 109 shadow-fleet vessels who were false false flagging in 2025

Banned Russian fuel keeps re-entering EU ports, with cargoes doubling in July

10 August 2026 by Wester van Gaal

Eighteen shipments of oil products from refineries that run partly on Russian crude were unloaded at EU ports in July, more than double the eight recorded in the month before.

FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich in Samarkand in 2025

Russia’s chess king and church head face new threat of EU visa sanctions

10 June 2026 by Andrew Rettman

Dvorkovich, the head of the FIDE chess federation, should be banned because he “publicly supported” the war in Ukraine, the EU Commission said in its second go at scalping Russia’s sports supremo.

After nearly three years of civil war, Sudan has effectively been partitioned, with the Sudan Armed Forces controlling the capital Khartoum and the key port of Port Sudan in the country’s north east. The Rapid Support Forces, meanwhile, controls Darfur and most of western Sudan (Photo: United Nations Photo)

EU says ‘concerns’ raised with UAE over its role in Sudan war

9 February 2026 by Benjamin Fox

The EU says it has challenged the UAE over its role in Sudan’s civil war, despite being in trade talks with Abu Dhabi.