There’s renewed European Union momentum to kick Russia’s nuclear sector out of the bloc and strip Moscow of one of its remaining holds over Europe’s energy supplies — if Viktor Orbán will allow it.
In Brussels, the European Commission, the EU’s executive, has pledged to explore whether the EU should sever ties with Russia’s “full nuclear supply chain” as part of a broader plan to eradicate energy dependency on Moscow.
And across the EU’s more hawkish capitals, officials are agitating to include nuclear restrictions in Brussels’ next Russia sanctions package, the 15th so far, expected to move forward early next year.
Together, it marks a revitalized effort to target Russia’s nuclear revenues, which have continued to benefit from European business throughout Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
