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[Ticker] More fighting in eastern Ukraine, says watchdog
There was a “sharp increase” of violence in recent days in eastern Ukraine, an official from the OSCE, Europe’s democracy watchdog, told the Deutsche Welle news service. Alexander Hug said that OSCE’s monitors recorded “2,900 explosions between the evenings of the 18th and 19th of December”, and a 300 percent...
White House rebuffed pre-election plan to combat Russian influence
The White House opposed a Republican-led push earlier this year to create an executive-branch task force to battle Russia’s covert information operations, according to a document obtained by POLITICO. Sen. Tom Cotton, a leading GOP defense hawk who has long urged President Barack Obama to take a harder line on Russia, sought to force...
ECJ advocate-general: Trade deals require national parliaments’ approval
The European Court of Justice’s advocate-general on Wednesday issued a non-binding opinion saying national and regional parliaments across the EU must also have a say on ratifying trade agreements. In 2014, the European Commission asked the court to rule if the EU-Singapore trade agreement, and similar upcoming deals such as one with...
[Ticker] Report: Majority in Dutch senate supports Ukraine deal
Dutch state broadcaster NOS reported Tuesday that a majority of Dutch senators will support the deal about the EU-Ukraine treaty PM Rutte brought home last week from an EU summit. Rutte needs a majority in both houses of parliament to ratify the treaty after a referendum in April. The centrist-liberal D66 party and Greens have announced they will...
[Ticker] Ukraine adopts budget without IMF-requested reforms
Ukraine’s parliament approved the country’s budget for 2017 on Wednesday in the hope of triggering more aid from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The budget deficit will be kept at 3 percent of gross domestic product, in line with IMF requirements, but without required pension reforms and without an end to a moratorium on the...
Poland faces ‘nuclear option’ of EU sanctions
The EU Commission could ask member states to impose sanctions against Poland for its breach of the rule of law in a crucial meeting, though experts say the country is unlikely to be punished. …read more Source:...
Marine Le Pen denies cash-for-support deal with Russia
PARIS — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen may have received funding from Russian-backed banks as thanks for supporting Russia’s annexation of Crimea, French investigative news site Mediapart reported Tuesday, citing text messages exchanged between two Russian officials. In the messages, which Mediapart said it had obtained...
Austria’s far-right seals pact with Russia
Freedom Party leaders went to Moscow and signed an agreement with a politician on EU sanctions list to cooperate with Vladimir Putin’s party. …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s ‘bold’ move to nationalize bank
KIEV – Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko is nationalizing the country’s largest retail bank in an effort to stabilize the country’s financial sector, a move that comes at a perilous time of heightened political disenchantment domestically and growing doubts about western support for Kiev. In a...
[Ticker] Russia and Nato still in ‘profound disagreement’ on Ukraine
Nato head Jens Stoltemberg said the alliance and Russia still had “profound disagreements” on Ukraine, where Nato says Russia illegally snatched Crimea and continues to destabilise east Ukraine. He spoke after meeting Russia’s Nato envoy at a Nato-Russia Council. The meeting also discussed Afghanistan, Russia’s risky air...
