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MEPs back visa-free travel for Georgians
The small Caucasian republic could get an EU visa waiver before its parliamentary elections in October. Kosovo, Turkey and Ukraine are also on the list, but may have to wait longer. …read more Source:...
EU trying to relaunch Ukraine peace process
Foreign ministers said the EU is ready to help with elections in Eastern Ukraine, while France and Germany are trying to bring back Russia to the negotiating table. …read more Source:...
EU to help Ukraine cut gas dependence on Russia
The EU aims to help Ukraine become independent of Russian energy supplies in the next “three to four year”, its PM and an EU commissioner have said. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Johnson: UK committed to EU foreign policy, Russia sanctions
New British foreign minister Boris Johnson told journalists in Bratislava on Friday he and British PM Theresa May remained “absolutely committed to participation in European foreign policy”. He added, ahead of his first foreign ministers’ ‘Gymnich’ meeting, that the EU should maintain pressure on Russia until it...
[Ticker] Report: German and Greek ships flout EU sanctions on Crimea
EU states’ ships are flouting the bloc’s embargo on doing business with Ukraine’s Russia-annexed Crimea, according to a new report by the OCCRP, a club of investigative reporters in eastern Europe. “Over the past two years, 24 vessels bearing EU countries’ flags, 43 vessels registered in the EU and 22 vessels owned by EU...
EU to uphold ban on Putin’s ‘cronies’
EU states are expected, next week, to extend for six months their blacklist of Russians and Ukrainians deemed responsible for the war in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] France warns of ‘escalation’ in Ukraine
French president Francois Hollande said in a speech in Paris Tuesday that “this summer, the situation [in Ukraine] has become much worse. The risks of escalation are high”. He repeated that EU sanctions on Russia could be removed if it complied with the ceasefire deal agreed last year in Minsk. Hollande is to meet Russian leader Putin...
[Ticker] Merkel defends EU sanctions on Russia
Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview published Friday by German media group RedaktionsNetzwerks Deutschland that the EU should uphold sanctions on Russia because it had not fulfilled the Minsk ceasefire accord in Ukraine. “This [the accord] is and remains the yardstick for the future of the sanctions,” she said. The EU...
[Ticker] EU denigrates Ukraine’s anti-corruption scheme
Ukraine’s decision to launch an online asset-declaration scheme for MPs without proper certification “makes little sense and might actually be counterproductive”, the EU foreign service said on Wednesday. The EU added that “failure to swiftly resolve this issue could undermine Ukraine’s important anti-corruption efforts”....
Ukraine visa deal hangs in the balance
A row over the introduction of a computer system for officials to declare their interests threatens to torpedo Ukraine’s visa deal with the EU. …read more Source:...
