In the long struggle to hold a coalition together against Russian aggression, the European Union now faces a quieter but no less consequential test: whether the solidarity forged in 2022 can survive the competing interests of its own member states. Negotiations over the potential delisting of oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman have exposed a fault line between those who see sanctions as inviolable leverage and those, led by France, who appear to be weighing other calculations. Latvia's refusal to renew the broader Russia sanctions regime until the dispute is resolved has transformed