The European Union must move beyond its reactive approach to dealing with the Russian Federation and adopt a robust, long-term strategy based on three key pillars: deterring Russian aggression against EU and NATO members, curbing Russia’s ability to wage war against Ukraine, and containing Moscow’s influence in EU candidate countries and the so-called Global South.

2 days ago · "EU foreign ministers just agreed to extend again the sanctions on Russia. This will continue to deprive Moscow of revenues to finance its war," the bloc's foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas wrote ...

Russia borders five EU member states: Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland; the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad is surrounded by EU members. Until the radical breakdown of relations following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the EU was Russia's largest trading partner and Russia had a significant role in the European energy sector.

Dec 16, 2024 · Find out all the answers to your questions on sanctions adopted by the European Union in response to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. Which sanctions has the EU adopted so far? Since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the EU has imposed massive and unprecedented sanctions against Russia.

Jan 1, 2025 · Russian gas was less than 10% of the EU's gas imports in 2023, according to the bloc. That figure was 40% in 2021. But several EU members, including Slovakia and Austria, continued to import ...

Feb 2, 2021 · However, EU-Russia relations have become increasingly strained over the years, not least because of the Kremlin’s consistent attacks on Ukraine’s sovereignty, including its 2014 annexation of Crimea and the full-scale invasion launched in February 2022.

Nov 23, 2022 · Following the Russian invasion against Ukraine in February 2022, the EU has suspended virtually all remaining cooperation programmes with Russia.

May 30, 2024 · Moscow’s agenda is aimed at obstructing EU and U.S. efforts to integrate the region into the West, not at establishing Russia as a political, diplomatic, and economic hegemon, a feat that even the Soviet Union failed to accomplish in the early Cold War period.

EU-Russia relations have been strained since 2014 because of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, support for separatist groups in eastern Ukraine, destabilisation policies in the neighbourhood, disinformation and interference campaigns and internal human rights violations.

Russia has amassed nearly 100 000 troops near the Ukrainian border, provoking renewed fears that Moscow is about to invade, seven years after it annexed the Crimean peninsula and destabilised the eastern regions of Ukraine.