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European Union ambassador Aidan O'Hara is assaulted at his home in Khartoum. EU Foreign Affairs High Representative Josep Borrell calls the assault a "gross violation of the Vienna Convention".
2023-04-17

Russian president Vladimir Putin issues a decree to prohibit the exports of Russian oil and petroleum products to countries and organizations that adhere to the US$60-per-barrel price cap that Australia, the European Union, and the G7 member states agreed upon earlier this month. The decree will be in effect from February 1 to July 1.
2022-12-27

Australia, the European Union, and the G7 member states decide to impose a US$60-per-barrel price ceiling on Russian seaborne oil.
2022-12-2

The European Union launches legal action against the United Kingdom, alleging a breach of post-Brexit agreements regarding the Northern Ireland Protocol.
2022-06-15

Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya asks the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union to exercise more pressure on the government of Alexander Lukashenko. Tsikhanouskaya, who is currently in self-exile in Lithuania, has been calling for such sanctions since the arrest of activist and journalist Roman Protasevich on May 23.
2021-06-4

The European Union formally rejects the result of the latest presidential election in Belarus, which saw Alexander Lukashenko re-elected with over 80% of the vote. The European Commission announces it will reroute €53 million away from the Belarusian government to civil society.
2020-08-19

The World Trade Organization authorizes the United States to impose about US$7.5 billion in tariffs on goods from the European Union every year. The WTO started the probe in 2005 after the United States complained that European subsidies to Airbus damage Boeing airplane sales.
2019-10-2

A referendum is held in the Republic of Macedonia on whether to change the country's name in order to join NATO and the EU.
2018-09-30

Pro-European Union parties achieve a majority in the Parliament of Moldova.
2014-11-30

The genetically modified variety of maize known as NK603, outlawed across the European Union, is sown and contaminates fields in seven German states.
2010-06-7