Members of the German and French parliaments have launched a joint initiative calling for more concrete measures against vessels belonging to Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’.
The draft document is due to be adopted on 22 June at a meeting of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly.
“Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ poses a threat not only to the effectiveness of our sanctions, but also to the security of Europe and our critical infrastructure. We must respond to this together,” said Jürgen Hardt, foreign policy expert for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag.
Anton Hofreiter, a Green Party politician and chair of the Bundestag’s Committee on European Union Affairs, said: “The activities of Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ provide a steady stream of revenue to the Russian state treasury to fund the war against Ukraine and pose a security threat.”