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Europe must not leave Ukraine in the lurch | Der Spiegel – Germany
Feb07

Europe must not leave Ukraine in the lurch | Der Spiegel – Germany

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EU wants Ukraine ceasefire respected amid renewed fighting
Feb07

EU wants Ukraine ceasefire respected amid renewed fighting

EU foreign ministers met in Brussels to discuss, among other things, the escalating violence in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...

Danish foreign minister: ‘We should stick to sanctions’
Feb07

Danish foreign minister: ‘We should stick to sanctions’

After a visit near the front in eastern Ukraine, where fighting and casualties have worsened in recent days, Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen called on the European Union and the United States to maintain sanctions on Russia. “There is a kind of broad agreement in Denmark that we should stick to sanctions,” Samuelsen said Monday during a...

Flynn to recommend Trump back NATO membership for Montenegro
Feb06

Flynn to recommend Trump back NATO membership for Montenegro

National security adviser Michael Flynn will recommend that President Donald Trump support allowing the small Balkan nation of Montenegro to join NATO, POLITICO has learned — despite strong opposition from Russia. The move will be a major test of the new administration’s policy toward Moscow, which considers any further eastward...

Ex-acting CIA chief suggests Trump has ‘some special bond’ with Putin
Feb06

Ex-acting CIA chief suggests Trump has ‘some special bond’ with Putin

Former acting CIA Director Michael Morell said President Donald Trump’s statements on Russia have been “very bizarre” and suggested there is “some special bond” between Trump and Vladimir Putin that is undermining U.S. interests. “It suggests that he doesn’t have a good...

Survivor: Special EU edition
Feb06

Survivor: Special EU edition

Who will make it through the challenges ahead? Who will be voted out of the group? Welcome to 2017 and “Survivor” — the European politics edition. Appropriately enough, a preview of this new reality show aired Friday on an island, as EU leaders gathered in Malta. But it will run throughout the year. French President François...

[Agenda] Ukraine, Libya and Dieselgate on EU agenda This WEEK
Feb06

[Agenda] Ukraine, Libya and Dieselgate on EU agenda This WEEK

Uncertainty over Trump’s foreign policy will weigh on foreign ministers and MEPs’ minds when they discuss the Ukraine conflict this week. …read more Source:...

Trump expresses ‘strong support’ for NATO, will meet leaders in May
Feb06

Trump expresses ‘strong support’ for NATO, will meet leaders in May

U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to meet NATO leaders in Europe in late May during a phone call with NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Sunday, according to the White House. Trump — who has pledged to force NATO members to pay their fair share for their own defense and caused alarm by calling the military alliance “obsolete”Â...

Trump’s plan to fight ISIL with Putin isn’t just futile. It’s dangerous
Feb06

Trump’s plan to fight ISIL with Putin isn’t just futile. It’s dangerous

America and Russia fighting on the same side against ISIL: This is the radical realignment that U.S. President Donald Trump has been dangling as the linchpin of his promised reboot of the global war on terror. In one of his first executive actions, Trump signed a presidential memorandum on January 28 giving the Secretary of Defense until the end...

Republicans denounce Trump’s defense of ‘killer’ Putin
Feb05

Republicans denounce Trump’s defense of ‘killer’ Putin

Donald Trump’s defense of Vladimir Putin’s homicidal history isn’t sitting well with fellow Republicans. Three Republican senators and several other conservatives were quick to condemn or distance themselves from the president seeming to put Putin on equal standing with the United States when it comes to...