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Rules for industries and governments aim to prevent all-out cyber breakdown.

Menno Snel makes his case to be ESM boss, and it’s not what you might expect.

Overall, GDP growth grew by 0.8 percent in the first quarter of 2022.

Diplomats object to plan to send cash to Hungary while Budapest says pipeline deliveries must continue.

EU will ‘provide large and very meaningful support for these reconstruction needs.’

Measure would make sanctions evasion an EU crime, paving way for authorities to take permanent action.

Brussels could pay Budapest to move away from Russian fuels as the impasse over sanctions deepens.

While Greens and leftists disagree on the finer points, policymakers are tightening the regulatory screws.

Plan set to be unveiled this month, diplomats say.

Hungary is still holding up a deal on the EU’s next package of sanctions.

Orbán wants a ‘crazy’ total opt-out from the ban, one diplomat says. Talks are set to re-start by Tuesday.

‘It would be appropriate to take at least two or even three steps,’ Holzmann tells Austrian newspaper Salzburger Nachrichten.

Bitter negotiations over oil sanctions indicate that the next fight, likely over gas, will be even tougher.

EU countries are divided over the sixth package of Russia sanctions and talks could go late into Friday night.

Hungarian PM’s remarks come as EU ambassadors meet to thrash out the new package of measures against Russia.

The UK combines the worst parts of the outlook for the US and eurozone economies.

Diplomats expect sanctions talks to drag late into Friday night as Hungary and Slovakia hold up oil ban.

Council president says Russian wealth should help rebuild Ukraine but plan faces legal obstacles.

The central bank expects a sharp slowdown in growth later this year, on the back of high energy prices.

Hungary and Slovakia throw up obstacles to a speedy sanctions deal in Brussels.

Slovakia government’s Karol Galek has called for more time to find alternative fuel supplies.

By targeting shipping, the EU hopes to cripple Russian production.

Many ECB watchers view Lagarde more as a political animal than a dyed-in-the-wool central banker.

Move is designed to pile further pressure on the Kremlin.