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Finland walks a 1,300 kilometer fine-line with Russia
European leaders spend a lot of time fretting about Russia these days, but no EU nation has more direct experience in managing an uneasy relationship with Moscow than Finland, which shares a 1,300-kilometer border with Russia and spent the Cold War claiming fragile neutrality. Finland abandoned its political neutrality in 1995 when it joined the...
Dutch PM asks opposition’s help on Ukraine agremeent
Mark Rutte is facing a parliament imposed deadline of 1 November to find a response to the Dutch “No” in a referendum on an EU-Ukraine trade deal. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Migration and security top Germany’s EU agenda
Tackling the migration crisis and improving security should be Europe’s main priorities in coming years, German finance minister Wolfgang Schaueble said on Friday in Bratislava. “We have to make sure our external borders are protected … we must do more to stabilise our neighbouring regions, including Ukraine,” he said at...
NATO chief: Numbers don’t add up to a new Cold War
For Jens Stoltenberg, the former Norwegian prime minister and one-time government statistician who is now the 13th secretary general of NATO, even the highest-stakes military and political problems can often be reduced to simple math. Asked in an interview with POLITICO if he worried that the four new NATO battalions to be stationed in eastern...
[Ticker] EU states issue record number of residence permits
EU states issued a record number, 2.6 million first residence permits, to non-EU nationals in 2015, according to the EU’s statistical office Eurostat. The top beneficiaries were people from Ukraine and the United States. The UK issued the most permits, with a total of 633,000 or about 24.3% of the total in the EU. …read more Source:...
Clinton eyes Biden for secretary of state
Joe Biden is at the top of the internal short list Hillary Clinton’s transition team is preparing for her pick to be secretary of state, a source familiar with the planning tells POLITICO. This would be the first major Cabinet candidate to go public for a campaign that’s insisted its focus remains on winning the election, and perhaps...
Moldova’s choice: Russia or the West
There may be nine candidates in Moldova’s presidential elections on Sunday, but it really boils down to two options: Russia, or the European Union. Socialist candidate Igor Dodon, a former economy minister and a front-runner in all the opinion polls, is on the record telling a Russian newspaper that his country’s association agreement...
Ukraine’s PM: Things can ‘only get better’
KIEV — To Volodymyr Groysman, Ukraine’s prime minister, questions from Western capitals about Kiev’s commitment to reform are unfathomable. For him, the results speak for themselves. While battling Russian-backed insurgents in the east of the country and stabilizing the economy, which just a year ago seemed to be heading off a cliff,...
EU slaps sanctions on 10 Syrian officials
The European Union on Thursday added 10 more Syrian regime officials to the list of suspects involved in the aggression against Syrian civilians, according to a statement. They include high-ranking military officials and several senior figures linked to President Bashar al-Assad’s government. They have been slapped with a travel ban and...
Parliament awards Sakharov Prize to Yazidi women
Two Yazidi women, who have advocated the plight of survivors of horrific abuse by ISIL in Iraq, have been awarded the European Parliament’s 2016 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the Parliament’s president Martin Schulz announced on Thursday. Nadia Murad Basee and Lamiya Aji Bashar “are representatives for the Yazidi community...
