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Countries of the European Union have overcome their reputation for internal division by adopting the largest package of penalties. ever imposed on a single country. Today, my colleague imposes Martinez status. Credit tells the story of how that happen and whether it will be another and wash was war on Ukraine it's Wednesday March second, but you describe the actions that the European Union has taken.

Against Russia over the past few days to try to end this war and ensure that there are consequences for it invading Ukraine, while Michael good evening. The measures that the European Union has taken against Russia for the invasion of Ukraine are very frankly stunning, as russian forces Andy's their assault on Kiev and other ukrainian cities. We are resolved to continue imposing massive costs on Russia. The most useful way to look at them is to sort of divide them and categories, one being broadly economic and the other being not economic bottom line is pretty clear. These are big and staggering penalties. Sanctions gets hurt. So when it comes to the economy. Their actions go after powerful individuals, polluting Vladimir Putin himself.

European Union decided to freeze and prudent, and foreign ministers or gay laughs assets, that's a very, very unusual move more on a box added the EU sanctions less. Yesterday we had a but then The EU went much further. Going into the plumbing of the relationship between the EU and Russia. The USA european allies imposed sweeping new financial sanctions and a crippling Russia's economy that economic relationship is really I'd integrated bright and while everyone knows about Europe's energy dependency on Russia, gas and oil, and so on, their relationship actually goes much deeper than that. It goes into the banking sector. It goes into trade, and so the European Union's sanctions really got.

To the nitty gritty of that relationship. We will paralyse the assets of Russia Central Bank, this will freeze its transactions and it will make it impossible for the central bank to liquid. Assets through the sanctions, the European Union is trying to freeze out the russian Central Bank from the global financial system. together with the United States and Canada and Britain. Of course, this basically cripples the country's ability to finance this war, which is exactly what the Europeans and the Americans want to do this there. Also stopping their own banks and their role, capital markets from doing any kind of transactions with the vast majority of russian banks and counterparts that until previously were daily interlocutors for european business and banks,

I mean this is really the equivalent of financial, shocking and all what's also quite important is the non economic stuff that the European Union has done for the first time ever The European Union will finance the purchase and delivery of weapons and other equipment to a country that is under attack The European Union is mobilizing this sort of obscure fund for the first time in its history to actually purchase and distribute lethal weapons to Ukraine. I'm not talking about hell, that's and flag jackets or just bullets. I'm talking about rocket propelled, grenades and serious military hardware. Tat Ukrainians can use to fight Russia weapons,

for precisely. This is a watershed moment and the European Union has been a thing for thirty years. Its history is very well record, and we know that these are steps that have not been taken before. We continue to coordinate closely with partners around and we remain in close contact with our ukrainian friends and for more I'm sitting in Brussels, which is the headquarters the European Union, what looks source in Africa and unique in this moment is that no one really saw this level of unity and action would be possible. Probably Vladimir, Putin included. But why not? Why did nobody The EU could pull off when it just at well. Michael thing about it is almost

a true european union. Fragmented divided, these are the adjectives you always hear associated with the Eu The reason is it's a club of twenty seven countries, in fact, that our sovereign and have their own interests, and so the relationship with Russia is the single most divisive topic for the European Union's foreign policy and EU countries need to have complete unanimity to make any foreign policy decision. Not one can disagree. Absolutely not other decisions can be made by simple majority or reinforced majority, but in foreign policy It has to be every single one of the twenty seven on board or nothing, and so, if you think about that twenty seven countries, each with a unique relationship to Russia closer or further away from them, dependent on them for gas and oil and other things and a demand that they all agree.

On such an ambitious package of sanctions and measures, together with transatlantic partners in Britain, You start realizing how unusual that is in the EU I'm shown that it can act like that over the last decade. If, if we cast our minds back, it's gone from crisis to crisis the eurozone debt crisis- Migration crisis then brags it with Britain leaving the EU literal fragmentation really point or real ass decade. Have we seen the block really sticking together right and the way that a dead, just in the course of a week, really is extraordinary too let's talk about why that happened, and why the historic pattern of the EU,

twenty seven countries not coming to an agreement on foreign policy as it did here. Why did that pattern of inaction. Fragmentation not hold here when it came to Russia, while the first and most obvious answer, perhaps, is that Vladimir Putin invaded Hugh Crain right, but to look at the other side of that and look within Europe for the answers that Europe gave to that action. We have to look not only at sort of top political level and leadership, but we also have to look in the bureaucratic corridors of Brussels across the Atlantic to the Biden administered. should an ultimately over to Ukraine and ads

charismatic leader, Volor Demiurge Lansky, and the forces in those three places coalesced into these outcomes, explain them. So First of all, here in the European Union we have the European Commission, which has effectively an army of bureaucrats. Most of them. Lawyers are subject matter experts and what they do is not really something that people outside of Brussels follow closely and it's very seldom that any One of those bureaucrats become some kind of hero or someone who's mentioned. A lot in the pressed right, but I think, With all that in mind, it's worth looking at one person, a sort of tall bespectacled german bureaucrat whose name is beyond side beds and he's the chief

staff of the president of the European Commission. Are we not to be rude, but when you look at him, he's a very low profile kind of guy? He just their dorky and you whereas suits, but he always, whereas these trainers or sneakers and and people kind of chuckle about that, but He turned out to be quoting senior sources that spoke to me about him. The machine.

the brains behind the European Union's sanctions and the point person coordinated with the United States, Canada and Britain, and it seems like he was a uniquely qualified for this moment, he's in defence guy. He was for so much of his professional life immersed in the american defence Ecosystem, so that when, at the end of last year, the United States started sharing intelligence with Europe that Vladimir Putin was preparing military action against you Rain zippered was uniquely placed to take that information very seriously and empowered to dart carefully secretly meticulously, putting together this massive list of sanctions

and he did a few unusual things. One of them that was very important was that since he started this work in January this year, he kept everything top secret. You didn't put anything on paper, the thinking behind that being that, if something leaked first of all, it could tipoff Vladimir Putin us the ear intentions, the other being that it could also trigger resist and anger at individual EU member states, which was something didn't want or need at that moment, in his work rate and the other thing you did. That was quite unusual. Was that instead of meeting with all Eu Countries representatives at the same time, he invited them into talks with different, smaller group configurations and he used a dynamic. between these smaller groups of countries and their officials to push forward consensus on his measures. Some

times using the opinions of one country to make the other country feel like they had come up with the idea for a sanction, for example, so he sort of played the I The reason the work that Germans I bird and his close associates were doing since January in Brussels is so important, is sanctions are very technical things and complicated and that his work meant that they were actually ready and they were prepared to be put in front of european leaders for debate and signature as soon as it became clear that Putin intended to Vade Ukraine, and I think, that's where we have to talk about the broader role that President Biden and his administration played

bringing the European Union on board, and what do you see that role is being well? First of all, it was U S: intelligence shared with the European Union about prudence plans for Ukraine that started this entire process. Anything the President Biden played an active role in pushing this intelligence to the right people in Europe by adverse he was kind of met with quite a lot of incredulity people in important places in the European Union were like. Oh yeah, really do your intelligence is so solid. Like you, you that Afghanistan was gonna, fall to the Taliban and in such a quick time you know there was a real loss of trust there and erosion of grown citizens. That came to the surface very quickly, and I think that President Biden tone when

spoke with European Union leaders was really important. He could have met them at their level and spoke like an equal partner rather than someone superior saying something to someone inferior, and this became extremely important in this next point. I think president violence message to Europe, european leaders as they embarked on this, was that you know I. Can do a lot of things to counter Russia's aggression in Ukraine. Washington and from where I said, but it's not gonna, be as impact fall as what you guys do in Europe. You are so close to Russia geographically, but also economic. equally, and so, if you and I dont work together to take coordinated actions, it's not.

we gonna matter he's not going to feel the pressure he's telling them. I can't do this without you, because you s, sanctions won't mean as much as european sanctions because of the proximity and the interdependence with Russia exactly Michael, but this story wouldn't be complete without talking about a third very important person, and that person is President Vladimir Zalewski of Ukraine. on Thursday nine hours after his country's been invaded by Putin's army. He is brought into a meeting by European Union leaders here in Brussels by video link At this point, European Union leaders have already- agreed on a number of important sanctions, but Selenski is sort of patched into this meeting from his bunker in ukraine- and he tells us

leaders. Look. This could be the last. You see me alive. You need to do more for me, you need to spend russian banks from Swift, which is this interbank global financial transactions network. You know aid to sanction Vladimir Putin and Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergei Labourer, off I need you to send me weapons and these earth things that European Union leader is really did not want to do when they went into nine eating, but once they said Have you know they were sitting in their suits in this comfortable room in the safety of Central Brussels, and they see him in his suit of military outfit in a bunker in Ukraine. telling them this may be the last time you see me alive people who spoke The leader is immediately after that meeting. Tell me that the mood had shifted completely in the things that had met

its ago, being impossible and off the table like sanction, the and live suddenly were done. Suddenly, Russia has his laughed with. What one senior source told me is the largest prohibition of financial interactions in history, basically the biggest sanctions ever placed on a country. That's it we're thing, an unprecedented in almost unified international reaction, the? U S and the EU sanctioning the Russian Central Bank for the first time ever, financing the purchase of weapons to older it back.

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pretty immediate blows to Russians and the russian economy. The world is putting Russia's filters economy to the tenth. Let's just start with the most obvious thing, which is the rouble: the russian currency, which has collapsed. The sanctions, including removing select russian banks from the swift, prompting lines at banks to withdraw our roubles, also threatens runaway inflation inside Russia and severe recession. The Russians, There are elements of those actions that are immediately hurting Russians on the street, so overnight bees are massacred by saying they will, of course, lie with sanctions. Russians use apple may in Google pay the way you and I do so. That means they waves transactions that Apple May, that gave will pay, will stop working and they found themselves unable to do so. In fact, I saw photos from the Moscow Metro where people were Turner swipe themselves in whither smartphones

apple, paying Google paid to pay for their tickets than they were unable to do that, and it goes beyond the economy two other things that were very symbolic of an increasingly globalized and interconnected Russia. So let me be very clear: our airspace will be close to every Russian Plain one thing be: in its effectively closed european skies for russian travellers. European Union is banning russian flights over Europe right now, so really can't fly there. Also getting frozen out of important global events now to have soccer largest governing bodies, including FIFA, has suspended all russian clubs that national teams from competition that includes high profile russian artists, but russian can who is a friend and supporter of proteins, will no longer led an orchestra at Carnegie Hall,

over the next three days: sympathisers and supporters of the lad, a mere Putin Carnegie Hall, spokeswoman, The change was made due to recent events. We, the Russians, are king in terms of sort of integration into the twenty first century, lifestyle, its doing a decade or longer of many russian suspicion the urban Russians being able to lead a modernized globalized lifestyle. So if the goal is to punish Russia for this invasion and for violating international law, what you're describing sounds like a success, but if a goal of these sanctions is to end the war or compel us to pull back its troops from Ukraine, that does not look as much like a success right,

well. Obviously the war and Ukraine is still going on so in the face of any you're right. But what sanction are doing, is a little more complicated there planting seeds of dissent against Vladimir Putin for what he is doing in Russia, the outcomes of which will take some time to play, and we're already seeing signs of that. We are seeing anger and protest on the street in Russia. and were also hearing a leads in Russia that have always supported Vladimir Putin, expressing concern and saying maybe it's time for peace which do want to turn back to Europe for distributed. You have mentioned that a reason why european leaders were reluctant to punish Russia severely was that their economies are so tied up with Russia's economy

and that sanctions could hurt Europe as much as it could hurt Russia and I'm curious. Now that the pain has arrived to the russian economy it also arrived in the european economy. Well we're already seeing glimmers of that just to even the fact that the European AIR carriers can't travel to Russia anymore, thus lost, The van come at the back of the corona virus pandemic goods, decimated european airlines, so we're gonna be being and hearing more and more about that pain. But what's really changed is that european law

prayers are now prepared to openly talk about it. They are prepared to acknowledge that this is gonna heard their economies because of the massive amount of trade and other transactions happening between Europe and Russia and we're talking about anything ranging from gucci bags to fertilizer they're gonna. Take a hit previously. It was. How can we avoid the hit the conversation in Europe rather now is. How are we going to support ourselves from this hit that we have to take So the question now is around the concept of sacrifice, rather than avoiding sacrifice. Precisely, but of course the question is: how long will Europeans be willing to? financial sacrifices. If these sanctions stay in place for months, maybe years while my

oh you're right about years, because one thing We do need to say about sanctions. Is that once they are place their law, it becomes really hard to roll them back and entirely remove them, but just to to answer your question here seem quite a lot. Resolve among ordinary Europeans in your seeing that on social media, bigger also seeing that on the street you're, seeing thousands and thousands of Europeans marching in favour of Ukraine and in favour of these sanctions by it. Goes beyond. What's happening right now, it goes to the heart of the nature of the relationship that Europe has with Russia and its forcing through conversations that, for so many years were theoretical, like reducing Europe's dependence on russian oil and

ass and seeking alternative means of keeping european homes warm and european factories running. It goes to the heart of finding a new markets outside Russia's elites for european goods and products and ultimately it goes to the heart of a debate which is forcing Europe to face up to the fact that its not just being coexisting was Russia and light a

Russia's. Specifically, it's been a nay blame, Vladimir Putin to continue his work and ultimately to invade Ukraine in the first place and you're saying the epitome here is that Europe can no longer do that and they have to change their behaviour meaningfully in order to prevent Lattimer buttons, Russia. From doing the very thing he just didn't Ukraine exactly Europe is finally confronting that its part of the problem. With that in mind, I'm cute, is what the experience of the past few weeks means for the idea of Europe and specifically what it means for the European Union or Michael, in so many ways. I thing Putin has done so you're really did and intend to which is to make the EU

p union stronger? This crisis is for saying the E. U closer, together in becoming something is sort of always wanted to be, but never quite managed, because it let division ends and disagreements. Some kind of quite narrow interests get in the way. Making the European Union see itself as one which is the first step to actually being wine and presenting and projecting itself as one power on the global scene There's this phrase: that's going around a lot in Brussels right now and it's kind of funny, because it

of latter. Mayor Lenin quote, which goes a bit like this. It says there are weeks when decades happen and the EU is three decades old and it really feels like decades worth of work, and integration has happened in this just one past week, Homer Tina. Thank you very much, commissioner, Thank you, Michael on Tuesday, in the least sign of Europe's fury over Russia's war in Ukraine, about one hundred diplomats walked out of a speech delivered in Geneva. By Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergei Labourer, off in his speech, Louvois criticized the European Union for its

saying they were a sign of quote hysteria. Meanwhile, Russia continued to attack civilian targets in Ukraine, striking to apartment complexes, north of Kiev and a major administrative building. In the city of Hearkeneth, killing at least seven people will be right back. this package is supported by USA, FACTS, USA, facts annual eight of the union in numbers. Is the perfect companion piece to the president's state of the union address. This report has data on the twelve most commonly covered topics in the presidential address, get non partisan facts behind immigration, employment, crime, covert, nineteen educate

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