EU High Representative. Put the first sanctions on the United States to a vote and won by abstention.
Ports, insurance, payments, designations. Hungary abstains and refuses to implement. Estonia records that the package "measures the rope while the arson is at the door."
Q: The European Union has sanctioned the United States. First time in history. A: First time in history. They should put that on a plaque. Hungary wouldn't sign it. One country in twenty-seven still remembers who paid for the last eighty years. Q: Mr President…
Sixty-four pages designate forty-two logistics firms and pull the insurance out from under the Arctic sealift. Two chartered freighters bound for Nuuk lose their indemnity certificates at sea.
Not political. I do not know what any of this means and I am getting nothing from the base. Card did not work at the commissary. Two aircraft that were supposed to take his section out on Monday are still sitting there. Somebody said it is …
Adopted. The European Union has imposed sanctions on the United States of America. Ports, insurance, payments, and a designation list on 2 February. Hungary abstained, which does not block, and has announced it will not implement. Four hours over the scheduled…
What was rejected matters as much. A general ban on US military aircraft and vessels using any EU infrastructure was dropped — Berlin and Paris said it would be "a blockade, drafted and signed." Naming US officials individually was set aside and "held in reser…
Estonia's minority statement, in full, because it is the best sentence anyone has produced this month: "The package as adopted measures the rope while the arson is at the door."
Genuine question for anyone who knows: what happens to ordinary things? I have a US pension from eight years in Boston. My sister banks with an American bank here. Is any of that in this, or is it only governments? Nobody in the coverage says and everyone I as…
Those weapons are American property, in American vaults, with American locks. Nobody needs a letter from me to understand who they belong to.
The port ban is retrospective and follows the vessel, not the voyage. Any hull that has called at US-controlled Greenland since 19 Jan is barred from every EU port, permanently. Charter desks were declining US government business within ninety minutes. Not bec…
Only governments and only named companies. Personal pensions, personal accounts, ordinary retail banking: not in it, not intended to be in it, not going to be in it. What CAN reach you is banks being over-cautious and slow. Annoying, not dangerous. Keep record…
The international rule of law is indivisible. It does not become negotiable because the state breaking it is powerful, or because it was once our closest partner.
Watching European officials discover, live, that a sanctions regime is easy to write and impossible to steer. We have been on the receiving end of eleven of these. Every single one hit a hospital supply chain nobody intended to hit. Every single one had an off…
Every step on this ladder makes the climb down harder.
EU: we have sanctioned the united states of america hungary: we have not EU: you voted for it hungary: i abstained EU: that counts hungary: does it though this is the funniest and worst thing i have ever watched
"I've seen a lot of letters this week." He has seen one. It arrived last night, it is one page long, and it asks for consultation before the warheads move. Not custody. Consultation. There is no reply being drafted. I have now checked three times.
Annex I is out. 42 firms designated across Panama, the Marshalls, Singapore, Canada. Seven ice-class hulls named. Polar Starling and Nordic Trader are both mid-ocean, Halifax to Nuuk, and their Scandinavian underwriters have just pulled their P&I certificates.…
the thing nobody tells you about living through history is how much of it is just checking your phone at work and going "oh no" and then serving the next customer