European Union

The European Union’s executive arm moved on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, to jump−start plans for the 27−nation bloc to abandon Russian energy amid the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine, proposing a nearly 300 billion−euro ($315 billion) package that includes more efficient use of fuels and faster rollout of renewable power.

Western governments prepared on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, to toughen sanctions against Russia and send more weapons to Ukraine, after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pointedly accused the world of failing to end Moscow’s invasion of his country and what he said was a campaign of murders, rapes and wanton destruction by Russian forces.