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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 6 april 2022
European Union proposes Russian coal ban in new sanctions

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN is not “a game changer.
Associated Press ... Targeting coal for the
BRUSSELS (AP) — The Eu- moment is too prudent, it’s
ropean Union’s executive too symbolic and the time
branch proposed Tuesday for symbolic measures is
a ban on coal imports from gone.”
Russia in what would be the “It’s not with coal that Putin
first EU sanctions targeting can get rich or sustain the
the country’s lucrative en- funding of the war. The big
ergy industry over its war in flow of money is certainly
Ukraine. oil and gas, not coal, and
European Commission that’s the issue.”
President Ursula von der The proposal still must be
Leyen said the EU needed adopted unanimously by
to increase the pressure on all 27 EU countries and is
Russian President Vladimir included among a new
Putin after what she de- package of sanctions.
scribed as “heinous crimes” Other measures proposed
carried out around Kyiv, by the EU’s executive arm
with evidence that Russian include sanctions on more
troops may have deliber- individuals and four key
ately killed Ukrainian civil- Russian banks, among
ians. them VTB, the second-larg-
Von der Leyen said the ban A loaded dump truck passes an empty truck as it carries away coal at the Kedrovsky open-pit est Russian bank.
on coal imports is worth 4 coal mine in Kemerovo, Russia, Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Associated Press “This will further weaken
billion euros ($4.4 billion) Russia´s financial system.”
per year and that the EU sian energy over fears that have announced efforts a clear stand against the The bloc also would ban
has already started work- it would plunge the Europe- to draw down their energy violation of the fundamen- Russian vessels and Russian-
ing on additional sanctions, an economy into recession. reliance on Russia: Poland tal principles of the world operated vessels from EU
including on oil imports. Europe’s dependence on says it plans to block im- order.” ports, with exceptions for
She didn’t mention natural Russian oil, natural gas and ports of coal and oil from Energy policy expert Sim- essentials such as agricul-
gas, with consensus among coal means finding una- the country, while Lithuania one Tagliapietra with the tural and food products,
the 27 EU countries on tar- nimity on energy measures said it’s no longer using Rus- Bruegel think tank in Brus- humanitarian aid and en-
geting the fuel used to gen- is a tall order, but the recent sian natural gas. sels said coal represented ergy.
erate electricity and heat reports of civilian killings “To take a clear stand is not 20 million euros in revenue Further targeted export
homes difficult to secure have increased pressure for only crucial for us in Europe for Russia from Europe per bans, worth 10 billion euros,
amid opposition from gas- tougher EU sanctions. but also for the rest of the day at current prices, com- in sectors covering quan-
dependent members like The U.S. and United King- world,” von der Leyen said. pared with 850 million per tum computers, advanced
Germany, the bloc’s larg- dom previously announced “A clear stand against Pu- day for oil and gas. semiconductors, sensitive
est economy. they were cutting off Rus- tin’s war of choice. The coal ban “is important machinery and transporta-
Until now, Europe had not sian oil. A clear stand against the because it breaks the en- tion equipment also were
been willing to target Rus- Individual EU countries massacre of civilians. And ergy taboo,” he said, but proposed. q

Darwin notebooks missing for 20 years returned to Cambridge

By JILL LAWLESS the library’s collection of manuscripts failed to find stolen to police in October that would bloom into his
Associated Press 10 million books, maps and them, they were reported 2020. landmark work on evolu-
LONDON (AP) — Two of Local detectives notified tion, “On the Origin of Spe-
naturalist Charles Darwin’s the global police organiza- cies.”
notebooks that were re- tion Interpol and launched The university’s director
ported stolen from Cam- an international hunt for of library services Jessica
bridge University’s library the notebooks, valued at Gardner said her feeling of
have been returned, two millions of pounds (dollars). relief at the books’ reap-
decades after they disap- On March 9 the books re- pearance was “profound
peared. appeared, left in a public and almost impossible to
The university said Tuesday area of the building, out- adequately express.”
that the manuscripts were side the librarian’s office, “The notebooks can now
left in the library inside a which is not covered by retake their rightful place
pink gift bag, along with a security cameras. The two alongside the rest of the
note wishing the librarian a notebooks were wrapped Darwin Archive at Cam-
Happy Easter. in clingfilm inside their ar- bridge, at the heart of the
The notebooks, which in- chive box, and appeared nation’s cultural and scien-
clude the 19th-century sci- undamaged. The accom- tific heritage, alongside the
entist’s famous 1837 “Tree panying note said: “Librar- archives of Sir Isaac New-
of Life” sketch, went missing In this photo provided by Cambridge University Library on ian Happy Easter X.” ton and Professor Stephen
in 2001 after being removed Tuesday, April 5, 2022, Dr Jessica Gardner looks at the Tree of Darwin filled the notebooks Hawking,” she said.
for photographing, though Life Sketch in one of naturalist Charles Darwin’s notbeook which with ideas shortly after re- The notebooks are set to
at the time staff believed have recently been returned after going missing in 2001, in turning from his voyage go on public display from
they might have been mis- Cambridge, England. around the world on HMS July as part of a Darwin ex-
placed. After searches of Associated Press Beagle, developing ideas hibition at the library.q