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Nato to open new facilities on Russia’s doorstep
Nato is to open eight new facilities in Russia’s neighbourhood, but allies ruled out giving weapons to Ukraine for now. …read more Source:...
[Opinion] Syria: The ultimate example of cynical realpolitik
With the roar of conflict in Ukraine some Middle East development risk being overlooked, the EU’s former envoy to Turkey and Syria says. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] EU agrees to blacklist five Russian officials
EU countries have agreed to blacklist 19 people and nine entities on top of the 132 people and 28 entities already on the register over the Ukraine war. Diplomatic sources say the group-of-19 includes five “lower level” Russian officials. The rest are said to be Russian agents in east Ukraine. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Merkel and Hollande to go to Kiev and Moscow
French president Francois Hollande and German chancellor Angela Merkel will go to Kiev on Thursday afternoon and then on to Moscow on Friday where they will meet Russian leader Vladimir Putin. “We will make a new proposal … based on the full territorial integrity of Ukraine,” Hollande said Thursday. …read more Source:...
Arms to Ukraine debate divides Western allies, experts
Estonia has called on the West to arm Ukraine, but the question remains highly divisive both inside Europe and in the US. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] EU blames ‘separatist offensive’ for Ukraine violence
EU foreign relations chief Mogherini has said the upsurge in violence in east Ukraine, where a shell hit a hospital in Donetsk on Wednesday claiming more civilian lives, was “provoked by the continued separatist offensive”. She called for a three-day truce to help civilians leave the town of Debaltseve. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] EU’s anti-Gazprom case on hold for now
EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager said on Tuesday the anti-trust case against Russian gas firm Gazprom is on hold pending her personal study of “gas infrastructure, prices and how it all works”. She denied that progress on the dossier is being stalled by the Ukrainian crisis. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Germany rules out arms to Ukraine
German leader Merkel told press in Budapest Monday: “Germay will not support Ukraine with guns and weapons … we are putting all our bets on sanctions and doing our best to find a diplomatic solution”. She spoke after press reports the US is considering military assistance as the conflict escalates. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Germany funds new Russia study centre
The German foreign ministry is putting €2.5 million a year into a research institute on Russia and the former Soviet republics, reviving a Cold War outfit that is now needed again given the Ukraine crisis, WirtschaftsWoche reports. Berlin also boosted funding for existing foreign policy think tanks. …read more Source:...
Greece agrees EU-Russia sanctions, defends its rights
The new Greek government has agreed to impose more EU sanctions on Russia, while defending its right to shape EU foreign policy. …read more Source:...
