The use of commercial, financial, or other economic tools and resources for foreign political purposes, including to establish dependencies that influence foreign governments, entities, or individuals.
Cases of economic coercion are included if they are perpetrated by the Russian or Chinese governments, their ruling parties, their state-owned enterprises, or their purportedly private enterprises used to carry out foreign policy objectives. Cases included are representative examples of how economic coercion undermines democratic institutions or processes.
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Belgium
October 2021
France
2018-2021
United States
6 July 2022
Belgium
Jan 2022
Serbia
October 25, 2021
Moldova
September - October 2021
Lithuania
August 2021
Italy
2018 - September 2021
United Kingdom
15 December, 2019
Sweden
19-31 March 2021
Netherlands
2010 - Ongoing
Sweden
21 January 2021
Montenegro
February 2014 - Ongoing
Bosnia and Herzegovina
October 2014
Denmark
2019-present
Lithuania
2019-2020
France
12/17/2020
Serbia
18 September 2019 - 17 October 2019
Serbia
2020
Hungary
2020
Czech Republic
April 2020
Hungary
April 3, 2020
Czech Republic
2/1/2020
Czech Republic
January 2020
Czech Republic
February 2020
Italy
2020
Czech Republic
December 2019
Germany
12/15/2019
Czech Republic
11/1/2019
Czech Republic
November 2019
United States
October 2019
Czech Republic
10/1/2019
Czech Republic
October 2019
Estonia
2019-2020
Serbia
February 2019 - ongoing