![[Ticker] Russia gas pipeline sees Bulgaria and Greece dump Ukraine](https://press.uaposition.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/EUobserver-578x280.jpg)
Section: EU
- EU Today (EU) (55)
- EUobserver (EU) (1,009)
- euro|topics (EU) (415)
- European Voice (EU) (1,995)
- Katoikos.eu (EU) (4)
- New Europe (EU) (170)
- VoxEeurop (EU) (13)
![[Focus] EU-Russia sanctions helping China to boost exports](https://press.uaposition.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/EUobserver-240x240.jpg)
[Focus] EU-Russia sanctions helping China to boost exports
Europe is losing out to China on exports to Russia. EU sanctions are one likely reason, but they have had scant political impact because most of the world continues to do business as usual with Moscow. …read more Source:...
How Europe will break on Brexit
The whole world will be watching Friday morning for fallout from Britain’s referendum on EU membership. A U.K. vote to leave will almost certainly have serious consequences on everything from financial markets to European policy decisions to political careers to the stability of the bloc. Politicians and diplomats from across Europe told...
EU takes first step toward extending Russia sanctions
Ambassadors of the EU’s 28 countries agreed on Tuesday to extend economic sanctions against Russia for another six months, diplomatic sources told POLITICO, though the decision still needs to be officially approved by ministers in the Council, and France, the U.K. and Sweden want to discuss the extension with national parliamentarians. An...
[Ticker] France delays full adoption of Russia sanctions
France Tuesday said it wanted to confer with its parliament prior to formally extending Russia economic sanctions for another six months, but agreed to the move in principle. The other 27 EU states also agreed due to “Russia’s actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine”, an EU official said. The sanctions expire on 31 July....
[Ticker] Austria: Time for ‘significant step’ towards Russia
The EU should make a “significant step towards Russia,” Austria’s foreign minister Sebastian Kurz said. He told Austrian TV that EU and Russia should “gradually come to a modus in which for every implementation of the Minsk protocol [on a ceasfire in East Ukraine], for every single step, sanctions will gradually be lifted...
New Western frontier, conquered by China
KHORGAS, China — The world’s lost cities have all been unearthed. The modern-day equivalent — fulfilling an age-old desire to stand in a place wholly unknown to others — is a city built so recently that few have even heard of it. The Chinese town of Khorgas, on the border with Kazakhstan and a strategic crossroads along the new Silk Road,...
EU extends sanctions targeting Crimea after Russian annexation
EU ministers on Friday extended for another year a set of sanctions targeting the Crimea peninsula, following its annexation by Russia in March 2014. The economic restrictions include an import ban of products originating from Crimea and prohibiting EU-based companies from investing on the peninsula or exporting certain goods and technologies...
Jean-Claude Juncker: ‘We must talk with Russia’
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said today that the EU and Russia should work towards improving their political and economic relations, but also reminded Moscow that it must live up to its international obligations. “We must not only talk about Russia … [but] also talk with Russia — its leadership, its people,” Juncker said,...
Juncker defends EU sanctions at Russia forum
The EU Commission chief tells an economic meeting in St Petersburg that relations can improve only if Russia lets Ukraine decide its own future. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Juncker takes swipe at Russia-Germany gas pipeline
European Commission head Juncker at a business forum in Russia said he had “a strong preference for pipelines that unite than pipelines that divide”, alluding to the Nord Stream II Russia-Germany pipeline which some EU countries oppose. He said the EU was ready to discuss better Russia relations, but that Russia must respect the Minsk...
