1 February - The European Union restricts the validity of the EU Digital COVID certificate to only nine months after having received their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.[3][4]
The European Union says that it will provide fighter aircraft and finance €500 million in procurement and delivery of weapons to Ukraine, the first time that the EU has done so. The EU will also provide €50 million in medical supplies.[12]
Foreign minister of Germany Annalena Baerbock reacts to the accession request of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, saying that joining the Union cannot be done in a matter of months.[18][19]
The presidents of 8 EU member states: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia jointly sign an open letter urging other member states to grant Ukraine candidate status immediately.[20]
11 March - The EU announces that it will ban all imports of iron and steel goods from Russia, ban the export of luxury goods to Russia, and freeze Russia's cryptocurrency assets.[26]
4 May - The European Union proposes to ban all oil imports from Russia by the end of the year, and also remove Russia's biggest bank, Sberbank, from SWIFT.[32]
11 May - The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) announce in a joint statement that, starting next week, masks are no longer required for flights or in airports. However, the EASA asks passengers to "behave responsibly and respect the choices of others around them," while the ECDC recommends that passengers continue to practice social distancing if it can be done in a non-disruptive manner.[34]
30 May - After weeks of deliberations, all of the European Union member states agree to impose an oil embargo on most oil imports from Russia (with the exception of that brought by pipelines), to be fully implemented by the end of the year, and cut off Sberbank from SWIFT.[37]
31 May - The United Kingdom and the European Union agree to implement a ban on insuring Russian oil tankers, which will be phased in beginning in 6 months. This will effectively render the vast majority of oil tankers uninsurable as most institutions conducting insurance are located in Western Europe.[38]
The European Parliament adopts a resolution urging to amend the treaties of the European Union in order to abolish the unanimity principle in decisionmaking with respect to sanctions and foreign policy and to grant the Parliament the right to legislative initiative.[42]
19 June - The European Union condemns the "structurally deficient" justice system in Bolivia and lack of "due process" in the trial of Jeanine Áñez and asks for her release.[47]
13 July - The European Commission allows Russia to resume shipping embargoed goods by rail to its exclave of Kaliningrad, following Russian threats against Lithuania. However, the transit of military equipment through Lithuanian territory remains prohibited.[52]
16 July - The Assembly of North Macedonia passes a motion to amend North Macedonia’s Constitution to recognize its Bulgarian minority, while pledging to discuss remaining issues with the Bulgarian government. In exchange, Bulgaria will allow membership talks with the European Union to begin.[53]
26 July - European Union energy ministers approve legislation to lower demand for gas by some member countries by 15% from August until March 2023.[57]
27 July - Russian energy company Gazprom reduces the amount of natural gas flowing through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline from Russia to Europe to 20% of the pipeline's capacity.[58]
28 July - Authorities in Hanover, Germany, turn off heating and switch to cold showers in all public buildings, and also shut off public water fountains amid an energy crisis after Gazprom reduced gas supplies to Germany through its Nord Stream 1 pipeline.[59]
August
9 August - Russia's Transneft says that Ukraine has suspended Russian oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline to the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia after it was unable to pay transit fees to Ukraine's pipeline operator UkrTransNafta. The Czech Republic's pipeline company says it expects supplies through the pipeline to restart within several days.[60]
18 August - The European Union statistics office reports that inflation in the Eurozone increased to a record 8.9% in July.[61]
September
September 24 – On the day before the 2022 Italian general election, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, was asked about possible Vladimir Putin allies in the Italian political system and the upcoming election, to which she replied that "if things go in a difficult direction, I've spoken about Hungary and Poland, we have tools." The comment garnered a strong backlash from some Italian politicians, especially from Salvini and Renzi.[62][63]
^"EU Digital COVID Certificate: Commission adopts binding acceptance period of nine months for vaccination certificates". European Commission. 21 December 2021. Retrieved 30 August 2022. The acceptance period will not be encoded in the certificate itself. Instead, the mobile applications used to verify the EU Digital COVID Certificates will be adjusted: If the date of vaccination is longer than 270 days ago, the mobile application used for verification will indicate the certificate as expired. To allow for sufficient time for technical implementation of the acceptance period and for Member States' booster vaccination campaigns, these new rules should apply from 1 February 2022.
^Lampert, Allison; Shepardson, David; Jones, Jessica; Thomas, Denny; Bendeich, Mark; Driver, Anna (28 February 2022). Sithole-Matarise, Emelia; Wallis, Daniel (eds.). "Europe and Canada move to close skies to Russian planes". Reuters. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
