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EUobserver is an independent European Union online newspaper that was founded
in 2000. It is not commercial. Its headquater is in Brussels, Belgium, EU. The
owner of EUobserver is non-profit organization ASBL.
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[Ticker] EU takes final step to adopt Ukraine association agreement
EU countries Tuesday definitively adopted the Association Agreement with Ukraine, a day before a summit in Kiev. The agreement has been provisionally applied since 1 September 2014, but its final ratification was delayed after Dutch voters rejected it in a 2016 referendum. The Netherlands ratified in May 2017 after getting assurances that it...
Ukraine to launch Nato entry process
Ukraine will start discussion about establishing a membership action plan despite Russia’s ongoing aggression in the east of the country. …read more Source:...
[Agenda] Trump, Ukraine and NGO sea rescues This WEEK
The US president will be back in Europe for France’s Bastille Day, while the EU and Ukraine will hold a summit in Kiev, and MEPs will discuss migrant rescue operations in the Mediterranean. …read more Source:...
[Focus] Estonia wants e-residents to pump money into its economy
Estonia’s e-residency programme is attracting attention from Ukraine and Russia, and provides an option for British businesses who want to remain active in the EU post-Brexit. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] EU extended Russia sanctions until 2018
Economic sanctions against Russia, introduced in 2014 in response to Russia’s actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine, were prolonged on Wednesday by the EU Council for another six month until 31 January 2018. The sanctions include limiting acces for large Russian state-owned financial institutions to EU capital markets, limitations...
[Ticker] Cyberattack cripples Europe, spreads worldwide
Ukraine was hit hard in a global ransomware attack on Tuesday, affecting its international airport, the old Chernobyl nuclear plant and closing ATMs in Kiev. Spreading fast, global shipping firm A.P. Moller-Maersk and the world’s biggest advertising agency, WPP Group, were hit, as well as Russia’s biggest oil company, Deutsche Post...
[Ticker] EU expects to extend economic sanctions on Russia
The EU’s economic sanctions on Russia are likely to be extended by the end of July, EU foreign relations chief Federica Mogherini said in Luxembourg on Monday. “I imagine the decision will be taken in the sense of continuing the present state of sanctions”, she said, adding that the situation in Ukraine, which Russia invaded,...
[Ticker] EU extends Russia sanctions on Crimea
EU countries extended the duration of their business sanctions on Russian-occupied Crimea until June 2018 on Tuesday. The measures forbid imports and exports, investments, tourism, and provision of other services. The EU also said it would “fully implement its non-recognition policy” of Russia’s annexation of the Ukrainian...
[Interview] Ukraine visa-free regime unlikely to prompt EU crime wave
Visa-free travel, which began on 11 June, unlikely to prompt Ukrainian crime wave in EU, the EU police chief in the country has said, but Ukraine itself at risk of going back to lawlessness. …read more Source:...
Germany threatens US rift over Russia gas pipeline
Germany and Austria have urged the US not to impose sanctions on Nord Stream 2, a Russian gas pipeline, in stark terms that spoke of ending joint action on Ukraine. …read more Source:...