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...“It’s the continual battle to try and ‘fix’ the systems for a type of transit and location that prospered under a different [EU single market] border system,” they added....
...by losing the dividends from transit”....
...The data hints at possible long-term problems with the abuse of transit rules....
...Germany imposed the transit tariff in 2022 to cover the cost of refilling its gas storage tanks to hit European Commission targets intended to avoid winter shortages for businesses and consumers....
...Now Russia has been left with Hungary, Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and exports to all but Hungary are threatened by the end, in December this year, of transit through Ukraine....
...But since 2007, the main gateway to the country has been limited to 32mn passengers a year, not counting those in transit....
...He added it would not prevent the transit of Russian and Belarusian grain products to countries in Africa and Asia. “We have been careful to uphold global food security.”...
...The common user charge will be £29 for products classified as high- and medium-risk, and £10 for low-risk products and goods in transit across the UK....
...The measure would allow the produce to transit the EU en route to Africa and Asia....
...Members of the RMT union have called off a week of strikes across the London Underground network after a late breakthrough in discussions with Transport for London, the capital’s public transit body....
...About half of Russian pipeline supplies to the region transits Bulgaria, with Hungary being one of the main end customers....
...supported new measures proposed by Brussels to impose caps on imports of eggs, poultry and sugar from June and to allow individual countries to close their markets to Ukrainian grain except for onward transit...
...“The best thing would be that we make a decision that you cannot transit through Russia. You cannot go via Russia because we don’t believe that we’re able to control it,” Landsbergis said....
...But first, we’ll hear from Biden in his State of the Union address later this evening. More on that below....
...Hungary, however, has not made any steps to wean itself off Russian imports, which transit Bulgaria and Ukraine....
...Union representatives, ministers and academics will also be quizzed on whether the retailer could have been saved. Two partners at EY have also been called to appear before the committee....
...Bulgaria, meanwhile, introduced a punitive transit tax on Russian gas crossing its territory, some of which ends up in Austria....
...The inclusion of Chinese and Indian companies comes as the EU and its G7 partners attempt to crack down on Russia’s use of third countries and transit routes to evade existing curbs designed to hamper its...
...Bulgaria, meanwhile, introduced a punitive transit tax on Russian gas crossing its territory, some of which end up in Austria....
...In May last year the EU imposed a highly unusual ban on imports of cheap Ukrainian grain into five member states while allowing transit to the rest of the bloc, and has recently suggested that safeguards...
...That decision helped energy groups and traders to make only relatively small drawdowns from repositories in the European Union, analysts said, keeping gas prices low and making refilling them easier next...
...The new transit fee amounts to about a fifth of the current TTF benchmark gas price (€50p/MWh). Transit fees are normally low single-digit percentages of the actual gas cost....
...Now read these Orbán, again: Bulgaria will abandon a tax on Russian gas transit after Hungary threatened to otherwise block the country’s Schengen entry....
...The new curbs on microplastics, which are mostly found in brakes and tyres and shear off when vehicles are in transit, will apply to electric vehicles too....
...Bucharest and Sofia argue that only a small minority of people who cross into the bloc via Turkey actually transit their territory, and that it is rather via Greece, Serbia and Hungary that those asylum...
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