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[Ticker] US welcomes new EU sanctions threat
The US has “welcomed” Tuesday’s threat by EU ministers to impose economic sanctions on Russia in the wake of the MH17 crash. A State Department spokeswoman said: “The US and Europe will continue to work to ensure that those responsible for the downing of flight MH17 are brought to justice.” …read more Source:...
UK is still sending arms to Russia, say MPs
The UK is still exporting millions of euros worth of arms to Russia, despite fears that Moscow has been arming separatists in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Netherlands in day of national mourning
The Netherlands is observing a day of national mourning Wednesday as it prepares for the return of some of the 193 Dutch victims from the Malaysia Airlines flight, downed in Ukraine Thursday. The bodies will be flown into Eindhoven airport and then transported to the city of Hilversum for identification. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Further EU summit on Russia not excluded
EU foreign ministers will ask the EU commission to draft defence sanctions on Russia following the downing of the Malaysia Airlines plane over eastern Ukraine, Austrian foreign minister Sebastian Kurz said on his way out of the meeting. A further EU summit on adopting the wider sanctions is not excluded. …read more Source:...
EU’s foreign policy in test after MH17 shootdown
EU foreign policy is facing a major test today as ministers gather in Brussels to consider their response to the suspected downing of the Malaysia Airlines flight by Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Steinmeier wants EU to ‘increase pressure’ on Russia
German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday said Russia so far has not used its influence on Ukrainian separatists to treat with dignity the bodies found in the wreckage of the Malaysia airplane and to grant access to international investigators. “We will have to increase the pressure,” Steinmeier said. …read more...
[Ticker] EU ambassadors in emergency meeting on Ukraine
The ambassadors of the 28 EU countries are set to meet in Brussels Monday at 17h30 in a special session to prepare possible further sanctions on Russia, to be decided by foreign ministers on Tuesday. The meeting has been called in the wake of the Malaysia airplane crash in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] German politicians criticise France’s warship deal with Russia
Roderich Kiesewetter, head of the Bundestag’s foreign affairs committee, has criticised France’s plan to deliver a warship to Russia in October. “An export of the French Mistral to Russia would be exactly the wrong signal,” he told Handelsblatt. Karl-Georg Wellmann, head of the Bundestag’s Germany/Ukraine MP group,...
[Ticker] Dutch inspectors arrive at Ukraine crash site
A Dutch team arrived at the Malaysia Airlines crash site in eastern Ukraine Monday and started the identification of victims, Spiegel Online reports. A spokesman for the pro-Russia separatists believed to be responsible for shooting down the plane said they are cooperating after Russian President Putin told them to. …read more Source:...
EU under pressure to broaden Russia sanctions
The US and the UK are putting pressure on the EU to impose tougher sanctions on Russia in the wake of the Malaysian Airlines disaster. …read more Source:...
