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Hungary: EU sanctions on Russia unlikely to be renewed
Hungary has said EU economic sanctions on Russia won’t be renewed when they expire in mid-2016. Russia confirmed it will help Hungary to pay for a new nuclear plant. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Ukraine PM survives no confidence vote
Ukraine PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk survived a vote of no confidence in parliament on Wednesday, the BBC reports, shortly after president Petro Poroshenko had asked him to resign over lack of reform. The former prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin, did step down after Poroshenko had also asked him to go. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Ukraine leader sacks PM, prosecutor
Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko has publicly asked for the resignation of prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and of the prosecutor general Viktor Shokin. He said they “failed to gain trust” on anti-corruption reforms. Shock move comes after Lithuanian economy minister Aivaras Abromavicius resigned and the IMF threatened to hold...
[Opinion] Minsk 2: The big farce of Western policy on Russia
The New Year has begun with optimism that the Ukraine crisis will be solved quickly. But the solution appears to be on Russia’s terms and at the cost of Ukraine’s national interests. …read more Source:...
[Feature] Behind the scenes of the EU and IMF backlash on Ukraine
The IMF has joined the EU in piling on pressure for Ukraine to fight corruption. But the shock resignation of an EU fixer, which prompted the backlash, may not be all it seems. …read more Source:...
US spy chiefs predict Syria, Ukraine wars to drag on
The Syria war will get worse in 2016 and the Ukraine war won’t end, US intelligence chiefs have said, in what one of them called a “litany of doom.” …read more Source:...
[Opinion] Dutch voters could derail gay rights in Ukraine
If Dutch voters stop the EU-Ukraine treaty in a referendum in April, they will help to stall the reform process. What will happen to Ukraine’s LGBT community? …read more Source:...
[Interview] Ukraine resignation is ‘cold shower’ for elite
Lithuania’s FM has said the surprise resignation of Ukraine’s Lithuanian economy minister is a “cold shower” for Kiev’s political elite, with corruption “playing into the hands” of Russia. …read more Source:...
Dutch PM takes back seat on Ukraine referendum
Dutch leader Rutte will not defend Yes vote “with flyers and flags and the like”, despite polls showing the No camp could sink the Ukraine pact, in echoes of 2005. …read more Source:...
EU sanctions on former Ukraine regime unravel
Combined investigative capacities of 28 EU states and 18,000 Ukrainian officials, over two years, failed to build a case that former Ukraine regime stole money. …read more Source:...