Section: New Europe (EU)
2014: a "black year” for NATO
Author(s): Dan Alexe stoltenberg_nato.jpg NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg here on Friday labeled the year 2014 as a “black year” for European security. He made the remarks during the launch of the NATO Annual Report, while stressing that NATO had been “able to respond to the changing environment.” Stoltenberg said...
Germany, France supported Greece on Russia resolution, UK threatened to veto
Author(s): Konstantin Tsapogas – von Taube kotzias.jpg Germany and France supported Greek positions, considering that Greece is right, and submitted an amended resolution on Ukraine while the UK, taking the opposite side, threatened with a veto for more than one hour demanding additional sanction against Europe, Greece’s Foreign...
No new EU Russia sanctions, Greek position still unclear
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51771044.jpg The “extraordinary” meeting of the EU foreign ministers on Russia and Ukraine, called by the capitals in order to put pressure on the Kremlin, ended with no new measures being announced. The conclusions of the meeting speak only of the prolongation of the current visa and asset freeze list until...
The EU is right to act on the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine
Author(s): NEOnline | TB refugees_camp_in_rostov_region_in_russia.jpg Today, the Foreign Affairs Council will hold an extraordinary meeting on Ukraine. The EU humanitarian aid package will be on the table for discussion; and hopefully the Council will propose to increase it. Such a decision would be good news for the Ukranian people suffering...
Greek opposition limits new Russia sanctions
Author(s): Dan Alexe mariupol_azov.jpg EU foreign ministers are meeting today to discuss the escalating crisis in east Ukraine. A tense discussion about further increasing sanctions on Russia is expected, following the dovish tone of this month’s paper on Russia from Federica Moregini’s services, but also the apparent turnabout in...
NATO condemns shelling of Mariupol, hints at Russian involvement
Author(s): Dan Alexe mariupol_shelling.jpg “We condemn the sharp escalation of violence along the ceasefire line in eastern Ukraine by Russia-backed separatists”, said on Monday the NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg. “Such indiscriminate attacks are unjustified and unacceptable. ” He was talking at the end of a special...
Russia defiant after threats from West following attack on Mariupol
Author(s): Dan Alexe mariupol.jpg Russia’s foreign minister struck a defiant note Monday after Western leaders threatened to further punish Moscow for escalated fighting in eastern Ukraine over the weekend. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told journalists that rocket shelling Saturday in the city of Mariupol, which left at least 30...
Death toll in Ukraine conflict exceeds 5,000, says UN human rights agency
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51742136.jpg The United Nations says that at least 5,000 people have been killed in the conflict in eastern Ukraine since April and that the real figure may be “considerably higher.” UN human rights spokesman Rupert Colville said the toll incudes 262 people killed in the past nine days, making that “the...
Increased EU financial aid to Ukraine
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51548971.jpg The European Union will discuss next Tuesday increasing the bloc’s emergency aid to Ukraine to as much as 2.5 billion euros, more than the 1.8 billion euros already proposed by the European Commission, diplomats told Reuters. Meanwhile, Russian natural gas producer Gazprom said on Friday that Ukraine had...
Despite sanctions, Exxon, Rosneft tap Russian Arctic field
Author(s): Kostis Geropoulos sakhalin_web.jpg Despite US and the EU sanctions targeting Russia’s big Arctic and Siberia shale oil ambitions, US major Exxon Mobil and Russian state oil company Rosneft have begun producing from the third and final field of the Sakhalin-1 offshore project in Russia’s Far East. …read more Source:...
