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[Ticker] Ukraine’s Poroshenko wants Nato referendum
Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko has said he wants a referendum on joining Nato. He told Berliner Morgenpost that more than half of Ukrainians were now in favour of joining the alliance, up from just 16 percent four years ago. “If the Ukrainians vote for it, I will do everything to achieve membership of the Atlantic alliance,” he...
Ukraine mulls referendum on NATO membership
Ukrainian President Petro Poroschenko plans to put NATO membership to a referendum after polls showed 54 percent of the country favored joining the alliance, German media reported Thursday. “Four years ago, only 16 percent [of the Ukrainian people] favored Ukraine’s entry into NATO. Now it’s 54 percent,” Funke Mediengruppe quoted...
UN warns of ‘dangerous deterioration’ in Ukraine
The United Nations Security Council said the situation in eastern Ukraine is worsening, leading to a “severe impact on the local civilian population,†in a statement released Tuesday. The members of the council, including Ukraine, which is serving a two-year term, condemned the use of weapons prohibited by Minsk peace...
Martin Schulz: Donald Trump is ‘un-American’
In one of the sharpest criticisms of the new U.S. president by a senior German politician, Martin Schulz has warned Donald Trump against removing sanctions on Russia and spoken out about his travel ban. “What Trump is doing is un-American,” the leader of the Social Democrats (SPD) told Funke media group in an interview published Wednesday....
Why Putin needs Orbán
BUDAPEST — As Russian President Vladimir Putin prepares to make a rare trip to the European Union Thursday, his choice of destination — Hungary — reveals a shift in the Kremlin’s strategy in Europe following the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump. Putin has met with Hungarian Prime Minister...
Donald Tusk slams ‘worrying declarations’ from Trump
European Council President Donald Tusk lumped the “worrying declarations” of U.S. President Donald Trump’s new administration together with the geopolitical challenges posed by Russia, China and Islamic terrorism as examples of the threats facing the EU, in a letter to European leaders ahead of their summit in Malta on Friday. The stark...
Catching up with Jelena Milić
Jelena Milić, a member of the POLITICO28 who runs the Belgrade-based think tank Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies, is one of the staunchest advocates for Serbian membership of both the EU and NATO. Interview highlights below; full interview text here. On EU-Serbia relations: Serbia’s Prime Minister Aleksandar VuÄić...
Democratic backsliding threatens international order: report
Nearly a quarter of countries registering setbacks in political rights and civil liberties in 2016 were in Europe, according to a Freedom House report published Tuesday. The U.S.-based research organization found backward moves on democracy in the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hungary, Poland, Serbia and Spain, as well as the United States....
Theresa May’s Brexit speech was contradictory: MEPs’ report
A new report by the European Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee describes U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s speech outlining her Brexit strategy as full of contradictions — but “certainly valuable in some parts.” “We have to consider the speech to constitute a basic negotiation objective, and its...
Trump and Putin connect over Middle East and repairing relationship
President Donald Trump had a “positive call” with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, during which the two promised to cooperate on destroying ISIS in Syrian and repair U.S. and Russian relations. The discussion was part of a diplomatic effort to connect over the phone with foreign leaders from countries including Japan, Germany, France...
