The Week from Thursday 16 June – Wednesday 22 June

From sex assaults to LGBTQ people, abortions, school shootings and war in the East of Europe.

European Union leaders finally agreed to shut off the flow of most of the oil they buy from Russia

After weeks of deadlock, European Union leaders finally agreed to shut off the flow of most of the oil they buy from Russia. Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo signaled it was “the provisional end point” of what he could agree to in the energy sphere.