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[Ticker] Russia to recognise passports from breakaway Ukraine regions
Russia will recognise passports issued by the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk republics in eastern Ukraine, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced on Saturday. People from the eastern regions will be able to travel into Russia without applying for a visa. The decree also recognises identity papers, diplomas, birth and marriage...
Belgian PM to Pence: We won’t allow EU to fragment
Belgium’s Prime Minister Charles Michel said he used a dinner with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence in Brussels Sunday evening to warn the Trump administration against supporting any break-up of the EU. Pence arrived in Brussels Sunday after attending the Munich Security Conference, and was scheduled to meet senior EU officials on Monday....
Trump’s demand upsets German election
MUNICH — When the visiting American dignitaries hammered home their desire for Europe to spend more on their militaries in recent days, their biggest target was the Continent’s richest nation — Germany. Washington’s pointed attacks on Berlin — whether over its open-door policy for refugees or its...
Trump has no foreign policy
Whenever a new American president takes office, or even well beforehand, analysts and academics rush to discern their foreign policy “doctrineâ€â€”a grand theory that connects what might otherwise appear to be a Pollack-like splattering of dots. The Bush doctrine, for instance, was supposedly about the rejection...
British government split over plan to use foreign aid to win Brexit support
U.K. ministers have clashed over plans to divert billions of pounds of foreign aid spending to eastern EU countries, in exchange for support in the upcoming Brexit negotiations, the Sunday Times reported. Senior cabinet ministers and officials in Downing Street believe that the aid used for wasteful projects in Asia and Africa from the...
Germany will take own time to boost defense, Merkel tells Pence
MUNICH – Germany will live up to its promise to increase military spending but on its own schedule, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday morning, speaking right before him at this year’s Munich Security Conference. “We will do everything we can in order to fulfil this...
David Cameron ‘courted’ for top NATO post
LONDON — U.K. cabinet ministers and a foreign statesman are “courting” David Cameron to raise his hand to be the next secretary general of NATO, according to people familiar with the situation. Barely half a year since stepping down as prime minister, Cameron has held what one British official calledÂ...
Tillerson assured Ukraine of U.S. solidarity, Poroshenko says
MUNICH — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has delivered a message of solidarity to Ukraine, President Petro Poroshenko said Friday. In a conversation on Friday afternoon, Tillerson “confirmed to me our unity … and our solidarity,†Poroshenko said during a panel discussion on Friday evening at this...
Memo to Mattis: don’t talk like Trump
Inside an American national security community unnerved by President Donald Trump’s careening approach to world affairs, Defense Secretary James Mattis is seen by many as his strongest Cabinet pick—no less, some whisper, than the potential savoir of the nation. Given the caliber of many of Trump’s Cabinet...
Pence seeks to reassure European allies
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, who throughout the campaign sought to soften Donald Trump’s edges and make him palatable to uneasy conservatives, now takes his reassurance tour to a new audience: foreign leaders frightened by Russian aggression and wary of an American president full of praise for Vladimir Putin. Pence took off for Europe on...
