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What if Donald Trump played the Kremlin?
Feb28

What if Donald Trump played the Kremlin?

MOSCOW — Ever since U.S. intelligence officials accused Russia of interfering in November’s presidential elections, President Donald Trump has been forced to deny accusations that he is a Kremlin puppet. There’s another explanation for the Kremlin’s meddling, one that may seem counterintuitive, but — in...

Dutch Christian Democrat would throw Ukraine deal ‘in the bin’
Feb27

Dutch Christian Democrat would throw Ukraine deal ‘in the bin’

Sybrand van Haersma Buma, the Dutch face of the European People’s Party, is becoming more and more critical of European integration. …read more Source:...

Belorussian Volunteers Fighting In Ukraine
Feb26

Belorussian Volunteers Fighting In Ukraine

Speaking exclusively to EU Today at the European Parliament in Brussels, Jan Melnikov, a young volunteer with three years experience on the front line, explains why he and several hundred fellow Belorussians are fighting alongside Ukrainian forces. (Statement is in Russian) Follow EU Today on Social media: http://www.facebook.com/EUToday.net/...

[Ticker] Dutch lower house approves EU-Ukraine treaty
Feb24

[Ticker] Dutch lower house approves EU-Ukraine treaty

The Dutch lower house of parliament on Thursday approved the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, leaving a vote in the Senate after Dutch elections on 15 March as a final hurdle before the deal can enter into force. The Netherlands is the only EU country that hadn’t ratified the Association Agreement with Ukraine, signed in 2014, after 61...

Manafort faced blackmail attempt, hacks suggest
Feb23

Manafort faced blackmail attempt, hacks suggest

A purported cyberhack of the daughter of political consultant Paul Manafort suggests that he was the victim of a blackmail attempt while he was serving as Donald Trump’s presidential campaign chairman last summer. The undated communications, which are allegedly from the iPhone of Manafort’s daughter, include a text that...

What I saw in Kiev
Feb23

What I saw in Kiev

I last visited Kiev in April 2014, when the energy in the city was still electric. For months, Independence Square — dubbed the Euromaidan by Ukrainians seeking to tug their country out from under Russia’s grasp — had been occupied by protesters and police as unrest gripped the city in the dead of the Ukrainian...

Images projected on walls: Berlinale and the global political drama
Feb23

Images projected on walls: Berlinale and the global political drama

What should be the role of an international film festival in these confusing and insecure times? Berlin’s recipe for addressing contemporary challenges This year there were additional controls at the entrance to the press centre of Berlin’s international film festival where the international jury press conference took place. Apart...

The man who invented Trumpism
Feb23

The man who invented Trumpism

VENMO, Netherlands — ong before Donald Trump upended the American political landscape, Geert Wilders was rewriting the electoral playbook in the Netherlands, stomping ruthlessly over convention and being rewarded with votes. Not only are the two men alike in their peculiar blond hairdos; they share a talent for using controversy to...

Additions to the EU transparency register (February 13-20)
Feb22

Additions to the EU transparency register (February 13-20)

Last week 84 new organizations signed up in the joint transparency register of the European Commission and the European Parliament. New entries include: a21soctenible Medio Ambiente, Desarrollo y Participacion Alter Summit Analizy Rynku Barbara Kielan aPODD Foundation Asociatia Lectura si Scrierea pentru Dezvoltarea Gandirii Critice Romania...

Does Trump herald the end of the West?
Feb22

Does Trump herald the end of the West?

LONDON — Since the fall of communism in 1989, a year has not gone by without some high-level meeting or international conference wrestling with the question of whether the Western alliance, NATO, has passed its sell-by date. “Whither NATO?” is now a well-worn inside joke for the conference attending global...