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Donald Tusk to Ukraine: Europe has got your back
European Council President Donald Tusk reassured senior Ukrainian leaders Thursday of Europe’s support in the country’s continuing conflict with Russia. EU leaders have long sought to play a role as moderator in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, including helping to broker the Minsk 2 peace agreement that so far has not been fulfilled....
Debate: New findings on downing of MH17
Just over two years after Flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine international investigators published their latest findings on Wednesday, according to which the plane was hit by a Buk missile fired by a rocket launcher brought from Russia into the rebel area. Many commentators see this as confirmation of the long held suspicion that...
Hungarian hole in the Schengen fence
When Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán talks about migrants, he doesn’t usually mince words — unless, that is, they have money. Orbán has made fighting migration his signature policy stance, calling a referendum on the EU’s controversial quota scheme for the relocation of refugees and demanding “total control” over the...
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[Ticker] Evidence mounts of Russian role in MH17 disaster
The missile that shot down Malaysian flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014 was Russian-made and fired from Russian-occupied territory according to the available evidence, international investigators in The Hague said on Wednesday. The Joint Investigation Team, composed of prosecutors from the Netherlands, Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, and Ukraine,...
Missile that downed MH17 originated in Russia
A Dutch prosecutor on Wednesday said a joint investigation concluded the missile that brought down Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was brought from Russia to a field near the town of Pervomaisk in eastern Ukraine, a territory occupied by pro-Russian separatists at the time. After the missile was fired, the launcher was taken back to Russia,...
[Ticker] Switzerland tops competitiveness ranking
The World Economic Forum, a Swiss think tank, has said, for the eighth year in a row, that Switzerland is the world’s most competitive economy. The Netherlands come top out of the EU in fourth place, beating Germany in fifth. The UK, based upon pre-Brexit referendum data, climbed three places to seventh. Greece did the worst, sliding five...
Georgieva enters race to run United Nations
After an 18-month shadow campaign, European Commission Vice President Kristalina Georgieva has succeeded in convincing her country’s prime minister, Bulgaria’s Boris Borisov, to nominate her for the post of United Nations secretary-general. Borisov told reporters Wednesday in Sofia that Georgieva’s candidacy “will be more likely...
[Ticker] MH17 report to be released
An international team investigating the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014 will release its preliminary conclusions later. Ahead of the release Russia’s defence ministry has presented radar data to suggest that the plane may have been shot down by Ukrainian forces. The west and Ukraine say Russia-backed rebels...
Vladimir Putin resurrects the KGB
MOSCOW — Soon after he was first appointed prime minister back in 1999, Vladimir Putin joked to an audience of top intelligence officers that a group of undercover spies, dispatched to infiltrate the government, was “successfully fulfilling its task.” It turns out Putin doesn’t do jokes. Over Putin’s years in power, not just the...
[Column / Crude World] Why Putin’s union doesn’t want to work with the EU
The EU should not dismiss institutional cooperation with the Russia-led economic association. But Moscow’s previous behaviour with Ukraine and Moldova shows it won’t let its neighbours turn too much to the West. …read more Source:...
