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Brexit and Trump encouraged Eastern Europe populism: report
The U.K.’s decision to leave the EU and Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. increased fears of instability and emboldened populists in Europe, according to a report out Tuesday by a human rights group. The U.S. based NGO Freedom House’s annual Nations in Transit report found there had been one of the biggest democratic declinesÂ...
Britain’s new centrist pin-up is … a Frenchman
LONDON — Britain’s beleaguered centrists have found their champion — and they’re sending the troops across the English Channel to help him win. The new golden boy for the Liberal Democrats is Emmanuel Macron, whom opinion polls favor to win the French presidential election in early May over far-right leader...
Haley eclipses Tillerson on Trump’s foreign policy ladder
In Donald Trump’s first meeting with Nikki Haley, on Nov. 17, he asked her to serve as his secretary of state. Haley turned him down, according to two sources familiar with the conversation, telling the president-elect that she lacked the requisite foreign policy experience for the job. The former South Carolina governor ended up...
Lithuania defense minister fears Russian invasion
Russia’s claims that Vilnius does not belong to Lithuania could be laying the groundwork for a possible invasion, Lithuania’s Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis told the Guardian in an interview published Monday. “Russia is a threat,” Karoblis said. “They are saying our capital Vilnius should not belong to Lithuania because...
Leading Ukraine political leader calls for peaceful resolution to Donbass conflict
The man dubbed Ukraine’s “Donald Trump” has called for a peaceful settlement to the ongoing war in the east of the country. While Vadim Rabinovich brands Russia’s annexation of Crimea as “intolerable” he insists that the bloody conflict that has claimed over 10,000 lives since 2014 can only be resolved at the negotiating table....
Nikki Haley: Trump ‘not stopping me from beating up on Russia’
U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Saturday that President Donald Trump has not stopped her from “beating up on Russia.” In an interview with ABC’s “This Week,” host Martha Raddatz asked the former South Carolina governor how the U.S. maintains its role, in Haley’s words, as the “moral conscience of the world” if...
Tusk appeals to EU to remain “united”
European council president Donald Tusk has appealed to the EU to remain “united” after Brexit talks began this week. In a speech, Tusk said, “Five days ago in Rome, right before signing the Rome Declaration, I said, “Europe as a political entity will either be united, or will not be at all. Only a united Europe can be a sovereign Europe in...
Germany pushes back on Trump’s NATO demands
With U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visiting NATO for the first time, Germany pushed back Friday against U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated demands that allies increase their military spending. Tillerson is the third Trump emissary to visit NATO headquarters in recent weeks and insist that allies show his boss the money by...
When America toes Moscow’s line
For someone with personal experience of Russian harassment and full-blown military attack, it is hard to observe the recent debate in the United States about Russian meddling with merely an academic interest. As the president of Georgia from 2004 to 2013, I saw firsthand how Russia treats its neighbors—and now Americans are getting a...
Tillerson denounces Russia, reminds NATO allies on spending
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson used his first visit to NATO HQ in Brussels to denounce Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. “We want obviously to have a discussion around NATO’s posture here in Europe, most particularly in Eastern Europe in response to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and elsewhere,” Tillerson told reporters...
