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Spain’s happy indignants
MADRID — Sunday May 15, 2011 was the day Jon Aguirre Such felt the full impact of the new protest movement taking over the Spanish capital. As a spokesman for what would soon become known as “15-M,” or los indignados, the 26-year-old architecture student from the Basque Country climbed onto the back of a truck and took the microphone. Thousands...
Petro Poroshenko ally takes Ukraine’s top legal post
KIEV — Ukraine’s parliament appointed a close ally of President Petro Poroshenko to the post of prosecutor general Thursday, only hours after passing a law that would have barred him from the office because of his lack of the required legal qualifications. Yuriy Lutsenko is a close confidant of Poroshenko’s and led his faction in...
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[Ticker] Italian MPs go to Russia-occupied Crimea
Five Italian politicians – Pepe Bartolomeo, Paola De Pin, Simeoni Ivana, Nicholas Ciraci and Gabriele Sani – who mostly come from anti-EU parties, such as the Five Star Movement, are to visit Russia-occupied Crimea in Ukraine this weekend. They will go with a TV crew to meet EU-blacklisted local bosses. …read more Source:...
London is the world’s billionaire capital
LONDON — The British capital is also the world’s billionaire capital, according to research published on Thursday. The city has the highest concentration of multi-millionaires globally with 4,400 “super-rich” residents with net assets worth over £20.7 million (€26.7 million) which does not include the value of their main house,...
Spain and Portugal at risk of EU sanctions over national budgets
The European Commission is mulling possible fines for Spain and Portugal for failing to meet EU national budgetary targets. One source from within the room in Tuesday’s college of commissioners’ meeting in Strasbourg confirmed to POLITICO on Wednesday that there was a debate but said no decisions were taken. There was, however, “a...
Sweden urged to boost alliances but avoid NATO
STOCKHOLM — Sweden should consider closer cooperation with the U.S. military but not go as far as joining NATO, according to a government-commissioned report to be released this summer. Concern about Russian aggression in Ukraine has forced Stockholm to reconsider the 200-year-old policy of neutrality in armed conflicts, but the left-leaning...
Moscow wary of TTIP talks, description as ‘economic NATO’
The effort to strike a transatlantic trade pact this year isn’t just occupying political leaders in Washington, Brussels, Paris and Berlin.It’s also being eyed warily in Moscow, where Russian officials see the potential deal as a threat. The Russian suspicion is easy to understand: While fights over French cheese, U.S. procurement...
Why Middle Eastern leaders are talking to Putin, not Obama
The United States has significantly more military capability in the Middle East today than Russia — America has 35,000 troops and hundreds of aircraft; the Russians roughly 2,000 troops and, perhaps, 50 aircraft — and yet Middle Eastern leaders are making pilgrimages to Moscow to see Vladimir Putin these days, not rushing to Washington. Two weeks...
Russia beams message into Georgia: ‘You belong to us’
TBILISI, Georgia — The EU used to be seen here as a beacon of democracy and prosperity. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the prospect of membership fueled reforms all over the region. The allure of today’s European Union, plagued with crisis, appears to be waning. For most Georgians, Europe is little more than a fantasy that comes to...
Why George Washington would have agreed with Donald Trump
For all the lamentation about the level of rhetoric in this Trumped-up election year, the race between Donald Trump and all-but-certain Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is already shaping up to be a debate over America’s global role of the kind we haven’t had for decades, perhaps since the last “America First” movement of the late...
