The EU just announced a barrage of new sanctions on Russia, including:

💵 Cutting off 22 Russian banks from SWIFT
⛽️ Banning the Nord Stream gas pipelines
🛢️ Lowering the oil price cap from $60 to $45 (with G7 approval)

“This war must end,” Ursula von der Leyen said 👉 www.politico.eu/article/ursu...

🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 In today’s @politico.eu Brussels Playbook, we reported on how a petition to ban conversion practices Europe-wide went viral days before its deadline.

Hours later, it’s reached one million signatures — meaning the European Commission must now formally consider it 👇 www.politico.eu/newsletter/b...

🤺 One man rules the world of Olympic fencing.

🇷🇺 His name is Alisher Usmanov, a sanctioned Russian billionaire who the EU claims is an ally of Vladimir Putin.

📰 In this week’s @politico.eu print edition, how fencing’s “sugar daddy” rose to power: edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader...

🎧 Catch me on Apple News’ daily podcast talking about Donald Trump’s proposal to buy (or invade?) Greenland 👇 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...