[MEA] MENA & Energy Security

MEA | MENA & Energy Security on Großwald.org covers the southern arc where European security meets energy exposure — the Gulf, the eastern Mediterranean, and the chokepoints Europe cannot defend but cannot do without. Coverage centres on the Hormuz–Iran crisis and its transmission into European energy prices, insurance, basing and force posture, rather than the Middle East for its own sake. When the strait closes, the bill arrives in Rotterdam and Ludwigshafen.

Lloyd's Market Voids Hull Cover for Ships That Pay Iran's Hormuz Toll — Payment Itself Now the Sanctions Trigger

Russia's Gasoline Output Falls to Two-Thirds of Demand as Moscow Bans Diesel Exports and Moves to Subsidise Crimea

A Ukrainian Deep Strike Halts Gazprom Neft's Omsk Refinery — Russia's Largest, Around 440,000 Barrels a Day, 2,500 km From the Front

German Federal Prosecutor Indicts a Ukrainian Over the Nord Stream Sabotage on Four Counts

Ukraine Strikes Gazprom Neft's Moscow Refinery From 500 Kilometres

G7 Agrees to Squeeze Russian Energy as Britain Sanctions the GRU's Neptune Network

Britain Boards a Russian Shadow-Fleet Tanker as the EU Adds 81 Sanctions Listings

Eurosatory Bars Israeli Offensive Systems, Permits Only Air and Missile Defence

French Naval Commandos Board the Shadow-Fleet Tanker Tagor off Brittany

Cumulative Ukrainian Deep-Strike Campaign Leaves ~83 Million Tonnes of Russian Refining Capacity Offline — One Quarter of National Total

U.S. Deploys Ukrainian "Sky Map" Counter-Drone Command-and-Control Platform at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia

Estonia: US Pauses HIMARS and Javelin Ammunition Deliveries Until Iran War Ends