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[Ticker] Belgium cancels football match with Spain over security fears
Belgium has cancelled a friendly football match with Spain in Brussels on Tuesday due to security fears following Friday’s deadly attacks in Paris, where France’s match against Germany was targetted. In preparation for Uefa Euro 2016, Denmark is up against Sweden and Slovenia is meeting Ukraine Tuesday evening as planned. …read...
[Focus] Ukraine gives equal rights to gay workers, to please Brussels
The adopted legislation was a requirement from Brussels if Ukraine wants visa-free travel. …read more Source:...
EU diplomats launch Russia ‘myth-busting’ weekly
The EU foreign service has started publishing a weekly newsletter debunking fake Russian stories, for instance, on Ukrainian fighters in Syria and CIA conspiracies. …read more Source:...
[Focus] Gay rights vote undermines EU-Ukraine visa deal
Ukrainian MPs have voted down a gay rights law in a decision likely to kill hope of EU visa-free travel by the end of the year. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Berlin meeting Friday on Ukraine crisis
Top diplomats from Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France will meet Friday in Berlin in the so-called Normandy format for fresh talks on the conflict in eastern Ukraine, according to the German foreign ministry. In February, the quartet leaders worked out a Minsk peace deal, but the ceasefire remains fragile. …read more Source:...
Rebel authorities, tycoons exploit aid effort in east Ukraine
Helping people affected by war in Ukraine requires managing unpredictable rebel authorities and using services provided by a pro-Kremlin oligarch. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Tusk: Trade-off with Russia would be ‘immoral’
A “trade-off between Russian actions in Syria and in Ukraine … would not only be immoral but, what is even worse, ineffective,” EU Council president Tusk said Wednesday, referring to EU talks on renewing Russia sanctions. Russia has called for Western cooperation in Syria, while the Ukraine conflict simmers on. …read more...
[Ticker] Ukraine prosecutor undermining pro-EU reform, NGO says
Transparency International, a prominent NGO, has accused Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin, of undermining the country’s EU agenda, including on visa-free travel, by “trying to exert personal control” over its new anti-corruption agencies. Its statement echoes complaints by Kalman Mizsei, an EU diplomat tasked...
Kiev’s call for EU mission falling on deaf ears
Kiev has, again, urged the EU to send peacekeepers to east Ukraine. But there is little appetite in Brussels for the move, diplomats say. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Ukraine president boosts own wealth
Ukrainian president Poroshenko is the only one of the country’s top 10 richest men to increase his personal wealth over the past year, according to Novoye Vremya, an authoritative weekly. The confectionary tycoon is said to be worth $0.98bn, compared to $0.82 last year, moving from ninth to sixth position. …read more Source:...