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[Ticker] Ukraine wants to apply for EU membership by 2020
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko Thursday said his country wants to apply for EU membership in 2020, reports DPA. He said fulfilment of a planned reform programme would enable “Ukraine to prepare an EU membership application within six years.” …read more Source:...
European powers focus on Islamic State at UN assembly
The fight against IS took centre stage from the Ukraine war when European powers spoke at the UN general assembly in New York on Thursday. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Gaddafi cousin to be removed from EU sanctions list, court rules
Qadhaf Al Dam, the cousin of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, must be removed from the EU’s list of people subject to sanctions, the European Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday. Al Dam had his EU-based bank accounts frozen and has been banned from entering the bloc since 2011. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Anti-war protest in Moscow attracts thousands
Some 20,000 people, according to AP, held a march in Moscow Sunday in protest against Russia’s involvement in the Ukraine war. Protesters carried Ukrainian flags and chanted “No to war!” A smaller protest was also held in St Petersburg, in the first public challenge to Russia’s actions in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Families of German MH17 victims to sue Ukraine
Relatives of the German victims of downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 plan to sue Ukraine and its president for criminal negligence for not closing the country’s airspace, reports AFP. Elmar Giemulla, representing three German families, said he would bring the case before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. …read more...
[Ticker] EU and Russia to hold new gas talks
The EU will hold fresh talks with Russia and Ukraine on September 26 in a bid to settle their dispute over gas supplies to Ukraine, AFP reports. Russia says that Ukraine owes €4.1 billion in unpaid bills, with the two sides still to agree on the price for future supplies. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Russia complains of Lithuania ‘provocations’
The Russian foreign ministry has complained after a WWII statue of Soviet soldiers was painted blue and yellow, the colours of the Ukrainian flag, in Lithuania. It said Thursday it is “demanding urgent measures to clean up the monuments, punish those responsible and prevent similar provocations in the future”. …read more Source:...
Ukraine says Europe at risk of ‘terrible … war’
Ukraine leader Poroshenko has warned the US that Europe is at risk of a “terrible … war”, but failed to get American weapons in return. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Malta rejects ship carrying suspected Ebola patient
The Maltese authorities on Tuesday refused entry to a merchant vessel en route from Guinea to Ukraine on suspicion that a Filipino patient on board showed Ebola virus symtoms, Malta Today reports. Italian authorities have now taken the patient while the ship continued on its way towards Ukraine. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Russia says EU-Ukraine trade deal to be ‘modified’
The Russian foreign ministry said Thursday it “hopes” the EU and Ukraine will before 2016 honour its complaints by “modifying” the free trade treaty ratified this week. It said that instead of EU free trade with eastern partners, there should be a single free trade area in “Greater Europe”. …read more...
