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Jens Stoltenberg: NATO troop deployment right response to aggressive Russia
Russia is trying to expand its sphere of influence by military means, and NATO’s deployment of up to 4,000 multinational troops in the Baltic states and Poland “is an appropriate response” to the country’s “aggressive actions,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told German tabloid Bild in an interview published Thursday. “We...
German foreign minister: Brexit ‘would shake the union’
The U.K. voting Leave in the EU referendum June 23 would “shake the union,” German Foreign Affairs Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned Wednesday, the BBC reports. “It would not just carry on as 28 [countries] minus one,” Steinmeier said at a joint press conference in Brandenburg with French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault. “It...
Corruption delays Ukraine’s EU visa bid
EU fears on corruption and organised crime are holding back Ukrainian people’s free access to Europe, according to initial EU talks on visas. …read more Source:...
Russians on probation
The behavior of some Russian football fans — using that last word in the loosest sense — makes one pine for the days of the Cold War, when these thugs would not have been able to travel abroad. Say what you will about the Iron Curtain: at least it kept the lumpen Russian at home. He is now uncaged and in our midst. Much condemnation has been...
Turkey to miss visa-free travel deadline
Turkey will miss an end of June deadline to meet the EU’s conditions for securing visa-free travel to the bloc for its citizens, the European Commission is to confirm Wednesday. Visa liberalization was a key part of an EU-Turkey deal struck in March in which Ankara was asked to stem the flow of refugees into Europe in exchange for cash and...
[Ticker] Threatening voters doesn’t work, says Dutch finance minister
Threatening voters with dire consequences if they reject the EU is a bad campaign tactic, Dutch finance minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem has said. “I don’t think that is a good approach,” he told MEPs in the economic and financial affairs committee in response to a question about the EU referendum in the UK. He referred to the Dutch...
Nato battalions to defend Baltic states and Poland
Nato chief Stoltenberg said no one was talking about a military presence of this kind before Russia attacked Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Mark Rutte regrets ‘disastrous’ Ukraine referendum
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Monday said he was “totally, totally, totally against referendums” as he expressed regret that Dutch citizens had voted down an EU agreement with Ukraine. Rutte blamed “his beloved coalition partners” the Social Democrats (PvdA) for the result of a non-binding referendum on April 6, in which the Dutch...
Martin Schulz cracks the whip on migration
Martin Schulz has stepped up a behind-the-scenes effort to soften opposition in the European Parliament to legislation on migration and terrorism issues, holding meetings with MEPs whose support is seen as critical to passage. The Parliament’s president had held two meetings in the past month with senior MEPs from the civil liberties,...
[Ticker] Dutch PM: EU-Ukraine deal referendum made no sense
The Dutch referendum on the EU-Ukraine association agreement led to “disastrous results”, Dutch PM Rutte said on Monday. “I am totally, totally, totally against referenda on multilateral agreements, because it makes no sense, as we have seen with the Dutch referendum,” he said in a speech. Voters rejected deal in the...
