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Why Portugal has become an oasis of stability
LISBON — Any celebrations of António Costa‘s first anniversary as Portugal’s prime minister were muted by the announcement this week that the man Costa spent five months persuading to lead Portugal’s biggest bank had resigned, plunging into doubt the government’s efforts to shore up the...
Russian wind blows over Eastern Europe
KIEV, Ukraine — The anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, and the subsequent collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, passed with barely a whimper this year. A chill wind blowing from the East put a damper on the celebrations. Russia, which Europe kept at arms length for so long, is once again ascendant....
The Italian movement that could remake Europe
FLORENCE — Before there was Brexit or Donald Trump, there was Italy’s 5Star Movement. Ever since it burst onto the scene in 2013, at the height of the euro crisis, the anti-establishment, Euroskeptic political party has served as the country’s largest, and loudest, opposition group, stubbornly defying...
Norwegian beats Russian to win World Chess Championship
Norway’s Magnus Carlsen on Wednesday won the World Chess Championship for the third time, seeing off challenger Sergey Karjakin, a Kremlin-backed Russian grandmaster who is a vocal supporter of President Vladimir Putin and who has praised the annexation of Crimea. After the 12-game match — which took place in New York...
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[Ticker] EU upholds sanctions on Putin ‘crony’
The EU court has upheld an asset freeze on Arkady Rotenberg, a Russian businessman whom EU diplomats call a “crony” of Russian president Vladmir Putin, over the Ukraine conflict. Judges had said the justifications for an initial asset freeze, imposed from July 2014 to March 2015, were “too vague”. But subsequent EU...
Moldova PM to Brussels: We still love EU
Prime Minister Pavel Filip has a message for EU and NATO leaders: Despite recently electing a pro-Russia president, Moldova is still firmly on a westward trajectory. Speaking to journalists after meeting with EU officials in Brussels on Tuesday, Filip said media reports that Chișinău would pivot away from the bloc after the...
Dear Martin, we’ll miss you. Love from Donald and Jean-Claude
The president of the European Commission on Thursday expressed “regret” over Martin Schulz’s decision to swap Brussels for Berlin. Jean-Claude Juncker described Schulz, who in the early hours of Thursday told POLITICO he will step down as European Parliament president and seek election to the German parliament, as a “convinced and...
Dear Martin, we’ll miss you. Love from Donald and Jean-Claude
The president of the European Commission on Thursday expressed “regret” over Martin Schulz’s decision to swap Brussels for Berlin. Jean-Claude Juncker described Schulz, who in the early hours of Thursday told POLITICO he will step down as European Parliament president and seek election to the German parliament, as a “convinced and...
Donald Trump’s win shakes Ukraine
KIEV — Donald Trump’s victory leaves Ukraine alone and afraid. The fear is that the new U.S. president-elect will choose warm ties with Moscow over the exasperation of supporting Ukraine, a country he described during the campaign as a “mess.†“Biggest loser in the world tonight...
Russian hackers targeting Germany: intelligence chief
Germany is likely to be the target of Russian cyberattacks ahead of national elections in 2017, warned the head of its federal intelligence service. There is evidence that “cyberattacks are taking place with no other motive than to cause political uncertainty,” said Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) President Bruno Kahl in an interview with...
