After Orbรกn, EU eyes new Russia sanctions push

Momentum has stalled under Hungary’s direction and leadership turnover in Brussels. Poland wants to change that.

Closing the backdoor: The new TurkStream is here. Can the West stop it?

Martin Vladimirov is director of the Energy and Climate Program at the Center for the Study of Democracy. Announcing its plans for what could be called TurkStream 2 on Aug. 21, Turkey finally dropped all pretenses. According to the countryโ€™s energy minister, Alparslan Bayraktar, the state-owned gas monopoly BOTAลž would now be able export around [โ€ฆ]

European gas price hike boosts Russian fuel sales, outstriping total EU aid to Ukraine

The rise in gas prices in Europe that has been attributed to Ukraine’s recent invasion of Kursk is expected to add to Russian revenues from selling fossil fuels, further widening the gap between such revenues and the total amount of EU support to Kyiv.