Section: New Europe (EU)
Nazarbayev says Ukraine conflict is ‘nonsense’, offers coal
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51713650.jpg Kazakhstan’s president says the conflict in eastern Ukraine is “nonsense” and is calling on Russia and Ukraine to find a way to resolve it. Nursultan Nazarbayev’s comments Monday, after a meeting in Kiev with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, could carry weight because Kazakhstan is...
The South Stream debacle: Russia does not expect financial claims
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51685390.jpg Russia is discussing legal issues with some of its partners over the scrapped South Stream gas pipeline project but financial claims are not expected, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told Kommersant newspaper on Monday. Russia abandoned the South Stream project, which was to supply gas to southern...
Europeans sceptical about Russia sanctions. Poll
Author(s): NEOnline | KT russia_sanctions.jpg Germans are more sceptical about EU sanctions against Russia over Ukraine than French or British citizens, according to a poll conducted by the UK firm, ICM Research in Germany, France and the United Kingdom in December. Over half of German citizens, 54 percent, believe that sanctions imposed by the...
EU summit targets Crimean economy, avoids hurting Russia proper
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51685859.jpg European Union governments will announce tighter restrictions on investment in Crimea later Thursday, targeting Russian Black Sea oil and gas exploration and tourism. The new restrictions, approved by the EU’s 28 governments just before today’s summit, where the bloc’s leaders will discuss,...
Turkey and the EU: membership deconstructed
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_50620836.jpg The European Union’s new foreign affairs chief is visiting Turkey to discuss the country’s troubled membership bid and the crisis in neighboring Syria and Iraq. Federica Mogherini, accompanied by the EU commissioners for humanitarian affairs and enlargement, Christos Stylianides and Johannes Hahn,...
With South Stream abandoned, Merkel accuses Putin of bullying Russia’s neighbours
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51621659.jpg “Russia is creating problems for Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Merkel accused Russia on Sunday of interfering in the domestic affairs of those countries because they are seeking closer ties to the European Union. “Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine are three countries...
Putting Europe Back Together
Author(s): Didier Burkhalter didier_osce.jpg We are nearing the end of one of the most volatile years of this young century. Crises in Iraq, Syria and Ukraine, the spread of Ebola, and instability in the South China Sea have created convulsions in the international system. At the same time, important anniversaries have reminded us of the dangers...
Ukraine says no danger from nuclear plant incident
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51687415.jpg Ukraine’s energy minister said Wednesday that a technical fault at a nuclear power plant in the south of the country has cut power production but he insisted the incident poses no danger. Volodymyr Demchishin said that the fault at a power-generating unit No. 3 in the Zaporozhiya plant led to a drop in...
NATO condemns Russia, supports Ukraine, agrees to rapid-reaction force
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51616770.jpg NATO Foreign Ministers on Tuesday (2 December 2014) stated their political and practical support for Ukraine and condemned the Russian military build-up in Crimea and what they called Russia’s “deliberate destabilisation” of eastern Ukraine. “We condemn Russia’s military build-up...
EU new support for Ukraine, as Russian rouble takes a nosedive
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51658604.jpg The EU Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement, Johannes Hahn, said the EU will offer a new multi-million-euro loan to Ukraine this month. “The EU in December will give Ukraine 500 million euros” Hahn had announced over the weekend in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. Hahn explained...
