
EU keeping Russia’s Arctic LNG project ‘alive’, despite year-end import ban
The EU agreed a self-imposed ban on Russian gas imports effective from the end of 2026. But it continues to be the exclusive buyer of LNG from Russia’s project in Siberia.

The EU agreed a self-imposed ban on Russian gas imports effective from the end of 2026. But it continues to be the exclusive buyer of LNG from Russia’s project in Siberia.

The European Arctic is, above all, European — and it is time Brussels treated it that way. The European Arctic produces a disproportionate share of Europe’s food security, energy supply and strategic raw materials. The gap between what this region contributes and what it receives in political attention is not a detail. It is a strategic failure.

Nato chief Mark Rutte joked about Donald Trump’s invasion threat, at the Western allies’ first high-level meeting since the peak in the Greenland crisis.

Nato has launched a new Arctic mission — but on paper only, as Western allies try to mop up the mess left by US invasion threats against Greenland.