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After EU ambassadors resolved Belgium’s burden-sharing demands on Dec 16, the bloc moved a step closer to channeling part of the €210 billion in immobilised Russian central-bank assets to Kyiv, with a final go/no-go decision slated for the Dec 18 European Council summit.
On 14-15 Dec 2025 Paris formally asked EU leaders to postpone the pre-Christmas Council vote needed for Ursula von der Leyen to sign the Mercosur free-trade agreement on 20 Dec, throwing a 25-year negotiation into last-minute jeopardy.
On 16 Dec 2025 Ford announced a $19.5 billion impairment and cancelled multiple battery-electric programs—including the F-150 Lightning pickup—in order to redirect capital to hybrids, extended-range EVs and smaller affordable BEVs.
On 15 Dec 2025 BTC slid from ~$90K to $85K as option-selling ‘OG’ whales forced market-maker hedging while looming Bank of Japan tightening yanked liquidity and triggered a cascade of $200 M long liquidations.
On 14-15 Dec 2025 Paris formally asked the EU Council to move the decisive qualified-majority vote on the 20-year-old Mercosur agreement past the 20 Dec signing deadline, citing unfinished farm safeguards.
On 10 Dec 2025, U.S. Coast Guard commandos fast-roped onto the Guyana-flagged Skipper and diverted its 1.9 m-barrel Venezuelan crude cargo to Texas, marking Washington’s first outright confiscation of Venezuelan oil under Trump’s expanded sanctions regime.
On 14 Dec 2025, Roomba-maker iRobot filed a pre-packaged Chapter 11 plan in Delaware that hands full ownership to its Chinese contract manufacturer Picea Robotics, erasing public shareholders while cancelling roughly $264 million in debt.
On 10-11 Dec 2025, SpaceX discreetly moved 1,021 BTC (~$95 m) between Coinbase Prime wallets while Bloomberg revealed the company is lining up a mid-2026 IPO to raise $30 billion+ at a ~$1.5 trillion valuation.
Between 10–13 Dec 2025 Washington boarded and diverted a Venezuelan crude tanker, froze assets of six shippers and Maduro’s in-laws, and rushed additional warships and F-35s into the Caribbean, turning a sanctions campaign into an overt military standoff.
On 11 Dec 2025 Mexico finalised a law that will, from 1 Jan 2026, slap steep duties on goods from countries lacking an FTA with Mexico, immediately drawing threats of retaliatory action from New Delhi and a protest from Beijing.
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