Section: euro|topics (EU)
British intelligence embarrassed | Novoye Vremya – Ukraine
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Debate: Ukraine: crackdown on critical media?
The editorial offices of the Ukrainian daily newspaper Vesti have been raided because the owner of its holding company, ex-finance minister Oleksandr Klymenko, is under investigation for corruption. The building has been transferred to a managing company whose employees have destroyed the inventory, witnesses claim. Ukrainian journalists write...
A storm brewing on the Maidan | Den – Ukraine
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Supporters willing to go to any lengths | Novoye Vremya – Ukraine
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A lottery to save democracy | Fokus – Ukraine
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A lottery to save democracy | Fokus – Ukraine
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Debate: Education law in Ukraine causes friction
The parliament in Kiev has passed an education law aimed at modernising Ukraine’s school system. Fierce criticism of the law has been voiced in Hungary and Russia, while Romania and Poland have been more moderate in their appraisals. Critics in these countries find it outrageous that classes in minority languages are to be severely...
Debate: Provocative new Polish passports?
Poles are to be issued new passports to mark the 100th anniversary of the country’s independence in 2018. But the new designs for the passports proposed by the Ministry of the Interior in an online vote have already sparked protests because they include images of sites of historical significance for Poland which are located in modernday...
Little to do with Ukraine | Tages-Anzeiger – Switzerland
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Debate: A rapprochement between Merkel and Putin?
Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel met on Tuesday in Sochi for the first time in two years. Both stressed the importance of the Minsk Protocol and the OSCE monitoring missions in eastern Ukraine. While some commentators fail to see any signs of rapprochement, others evoke the possibility of a pragmatic solution to the...
