The Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption, and the 2030 Agenda has sanctioned seven online retail companies for false discounts during Black Friday 2023. Specifically, the ministry found that the companies, whose names have not been revealed, raised the prices of several products days before the Black Friday sales campaign, as Consum explained this Friday in a press release.

This evening's meeting in Brussels is the first face-to-face meeting of European Union heads of state and government since December, and at the last minute Belarus has been squeezed into an agenda that was already fraught with foreign policy conflicts. Yesterday Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko forced the diversion of a Ryanair commercial airliner flying from Athens to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, to arrest journalist Roman Protasevich. Reactions in the European Union were swift and forceful. The High Representative of the European Union, Josep Borrell, quickly warned that the EU would consider "all the consequences", which could range from extending the list of sanctions already in place against Belarus to banning the Belarusian state airline from using European airports, as proposed by the Belgian Prime Minister, Alexander De Croo. It remains to be seen, however, whether there is unanimity to go this far.