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France ignores EU sanctions list, grants visa to banned Russian minister
France has defied an EU travel ban and granted a visa to Russian Agriculture Minister Alexander Tkachev, despite the fact he is blacklisted from entering the bloc due to his support of Moscow’s annexation of Crimea. The Russian ministry confirmed Tkachev had been granted a French visa to head the Russian delegation at the World Organization...
A drive through Eastern Europe’s twilight zone
When I embarked on a road trip from Ukraine’s capital Kiev to Romania’s Transylvania in early May, I was blissfully unaware of the fear and paranoia that lurks in the border zones between East and West. I had bought a Peugeot convertible in Estonia the previous year, and needed to drive it out of Ukraine to avoid paying expensive...
Victims’ families of downed MH17 flight sue Vladimir Putin
President Vladimir Putin and the state of Russia have been named as defendants in a lawsuit by the families of people who had been killed in the MH17 flight. The Malaysian Airlines aircraft was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made missile in July 2014. All 298 passengers and crew on board were killed. The victims’ families are...
Russia’s envoy to NATO says isolation policy has failed
Russia’s ambassador to NATO Alexander Grushko said that the alliance’s policy of isolating Moscow has been a failure. NATO’s strategy is, in fact, damaging to the military alliance, Grushko said to journalists in Brussels Saturday: “It is clear that if NATO continues to implement policies announced at the 2014 Wales Summit, it...
Obama’s Asian nuclear nightmare
President Barack Obama’s trip to Asia next week will be anchored by a stop in Hiroshima, where he will focus on its dark nuclear past. But Obama’s visit comes at a moment when U.S. and Asian officials fear the region is entering a newly dangerous atomic future, threatening Obama’s vow to roll back the spread of nuclear arms and...
Milo Ðukanović: Like it or not, Montenegro’s going West
It’s been a busy week for Montenegro’s Prime Minister Milo Ðukanović: The speaker of parliament was removed and the premier put a clutch of opposition politicians in his cabinet to form an interim government that will serve until October’s general elections, when Ðukanović intends to secure an eighth term. Then, on Thursday, he...
EU expected to extend Russia economic sanctions
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has predicted the EU will extend economic sanctions on Russia by June despite “differences” of opinion in Europe. …read more Source:...
Bratislava braces itself for EU presidency, and so does Brussels
Slovakia is almost ready for its EU close-up, but not everyone in Brussels is confident the country can handle the starring role it will have in driving the union’s political agenda for the second half of the year. It won’t be the first member of its class of mostly small, Eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 to hold...
David Cameron, the accidental European
LONDON — David Cameron promised to end his party’s obsession with Europe. Instead his premiership will be defined by it. The British prime minister is all but certain to suffer his own ignominious departure if Britain votes to exit the European Union. To Cameron’s critics it would be a fitting end to a political career laced with...
EU to back temporary halt on visa-free travel
EU interior ministers are expected to approve on Friday an “emergency brake” that would allow member countries to temporarily suspend visa-free travel for non-EU citizens. Germany and France led a push for the measure to assuage fears in national capitals that non-EU citizens could travel to the bloc in large numbers. The European Commission came...
