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2026-08-23
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│ Six EU countries push for windfall tax on │
│ oil companies amid surging war profits │
│ large - Euronews - unknown/unknown │
│ [DEU,ITA,AUT,POL,PRT,ESP,IRL] │
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│ Finance ministers of Germany, Italy, │
│ Austria, Poland, Portugal and Spain jointly │
│ asked the Irish presidency to put a │
│ windfall tax on Hormuz-inflated oil profits │
│ on the Sept 18-19 Ecofin agenda, with │
│ Dublin open to the debate. Fiscal-policy │
│ signal, no score moves. │
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│ https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/ │
│ 23/six-eu-countries-push-for-windfall-tax-o │
│ n-oil-companies-amid-surging-war-profits │
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2026-07-13
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│ Aughinish Alumina: Ireland will 'work with' │
│ European Commission if sanctions proposed, │
│ McEntee says │
│ medium - The Irish Times - │
│ unknown/independent [IRL,RUS] │
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│ Follow-through on the OCCRP/Irish Times │
│ investigation: Ireland says it will │
│ cooperate if the Commission proposes │
│ alumina sanctions; the Irish government's │
│ own probe into the plant's Russian-linked │
│ exports is due within days. Watch-item; no │
│ score moved. │
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│ https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2026/07 │
│ /13/aughinish-alumina-ireland-will-work-wit │
│ h-european-commission-if-sanctions-proposed │
│ -mcentee-says/ │
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2026-07-08
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│ EU Lawmakers Back Alumina Sanctions Push │
│ medium - OCCRP - │
│ investigative/investigative [IRL,RUS] │
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│ The European Parliament backed (July 8) a │
│ call to ban EU alumina exports to Russia │
│ after an OCCRP investigation linked an │
│ Irish refinery's supply chain to Russian │
│ arms makers - pressure to close a │
│ sanctions-evasion gap in the metals/defense │
│ supply chain. │
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│ https://www.occrp.org/en/news/eu-lawmakers- │
│ back-alumina-sanctions-push │
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