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[Ticker] Eurovision says no to Kosovo, Palestine, IS flags
The Eurovision Song Contest has said Basque, Kosovo, Palestine, Islamic State, Transnistria, Crimea and People’s Republic of Luhansk or Donetsk symbols are not welcome at the show on 14 May in Stockholm. Rainbow and EU flags are OK, as long as they are not used to make political statements. …read more Source:...
George Osborne cosies up to political journalists at Westminster correspondents dinner
The Washington version of this dinner might get all the global attention (it’s happening tomorrow night), but George Osborne did his best to catch up on Thursday night, professing near endless love for journalists and entertaining them with swipes at his Tory leadership rival Boris Johnson. The Chancellor hasn’t had the smoothest of...
[Ticker] Russia blames Sweden for frosty relations
Russian FM Sergey Lavrov told Swedish media he regretted that Stockholm cooled relations with Moscow “after Brussels was somehow offended by our response to the state-armed coup in Kiev” in 2014. He said the Baltic states aren’t grateful enough to Russia for letting them go without large-scale bloodshed in 1991. …read more...
[Ticker] German MEP backs Russia on Crimea
German MEP Marcus Pretzell, a non-attached from the populist anti-refugee party Alternative for Germany (AfD), was guest of honor at an event in the Russia-occupied Crimean peninsula. Invited by Moscow, Pretzell said the AfD poses a “threat to the Ukrainian government” and the German government, reports Spiegal Online. …read...
Belgium plans to hand out iodine pills in case of nuclear emergency
Belgium is considering handing out iodine tablets to the entire population in the event of a nuclear emergency. The pills are used to lessen the impact of radiation on the thyroid gland, and can reduce the risk of thyroid cancer after exposure. The measure was recommended by the Superior Health Council as part of a revision of the country’s...
In the loop April 28: Chernobyl, Italian-Austrian border, Google competition, tobacco lobby
This week POLITICO’s lobbying reporter James Panichi talks with energy reporter Kalina Oroschakoff about the 30 year anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Antitrust and competition reporter Nicholas Hirst joins to discuss the Commission’s accusations against Google for abusing its dominant position on the market. Jacopo Barigazzi...
France’s lower house calls on EU to lift Russia sanctions
PARIS — France’s lower house of parliament adopted a resolution Thursday calling for the European Union to lift its economic sanctions against Russia, though less than a fifth of the chamber participated in the vote. Of the National Assembly’s 577 MPs, 101 voted. Fifty-five voted in favor and 44 were against the resolution, which...
[Focus] EU’s Arctic policy targets environment, Russia
Eight years in the making, the EU’s new Arctic strategy focuses on environmental issues and speaks of “selective engagement” with Russia despite the Ukraine war. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] France, Germany want easier ways to suspend visa-free travel
They say the current safeguard clauses to temporarily shelve visa-free regimes are too complicated, according to the WSJ, and have circulated proposals to make the procedure easier. The European Commission recently proposed such agreements with Turkey, Ukraine and Georgia that would allow 120 million people easier access to the EU. …read...
[Ticker] EU-Ukraine summit postponed to September
The EU-Ukraine summit that was planned for 19 May will be moved to September to give Kiev time to deliver on reforms it pledged under the EU association agreement, a European Commission spokesperson said on Wednesday (27 April). Ukraine recently appointed a new government. …read more Source:...
