By Julia Payne, Andrew Gray and Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) -EU members approved a 13th package of Ukraine-related sanctions against Russia on Wednesday, banning nearly 200 entities and individuals accused of helping Moscow procure weapons or of involvement in kidnapping Ukrainian children. “EU Ambassadors just agreed in principle on a 13th package of sanctions in…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union on Wednesday approved its 13th package of sanctions against Russia, the EU's Belgian presidency said on social media platform X, confirming what sources had earlier told Reuters. "EU Ambassadors just agreed in principle on a 13th package of sanctions in the framework of Russia's aggression against Ukraine", the Belgian presidency said, calling it "one of the broadest approved by the EU". The package will be formally approved in time for the second anniversa
EU conditions for ensuring rule of law among member states before they can receive financial aid are not strong enough to completely rule out a backsliding in democracy, the 27-nation bloc's auditors said on Wednesday. The European Union has tightened democratic safeguards on payouts from the bloc's shared budget in recent years in a bid to rein in nationalists ruling in Poland and Hungary, widely accused of curtailing freedoms of the media, courts, academics and rights groups. But the European Court of Auditors (ECA) said in a report that these safeguards did not yet "guarantee full protection of the EU's financial interests".
EU conditions for ensuring rule of law among member states before they can receive financial aid are not strong enough to completely rule out a backsliding in democracy, the 27-nation bloc s. -February 20, 2024 at 06:04 pm EST
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