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[Ticker] Hungary blocks Ukraine in Nato over language rights
Dec04

[Ticker] Hungary blocks Ukraine in Nato over language rights

Hungarian foreign minister, Péter Szijjártó, pledged on Wednesday that his country would block Ukraine’s membership in Nato unless Kiev restores the rights that about 150,000 ethnic Hungarians had before a language law from 2017 put a curb on minorities’ access to education in their mother tongues, Reuters writes. “We ask for no...

Trump abused power of presidency, Democrats conclude in impeachment report
Dec03

Trump abused power of presidency, Democrats conclude in impeachment report

U.S. President Donald Trump abused the power of his office by pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate his political rivals, House Democrats concluded in a report released Tuesday. The 300-page House Intelligence Committee report, which is expected to form the basis of articles of impeachment, also accuses Trump of...

Putin speaks by phone with von der Leyen
Dec03

Putin speaks by phone with von der Leyen

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday and congratulated her on her new position, according to the Kremlin. “It was noted on both sides that, despite the current difficult period in relations between Russia and the European Union, it is in the common long-term interests to find...

New distance to the US | Ukrayinska Pravda – Ukraine
Dec03

New distance to the US | Ukrayinska Pravda – Ukraine

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Zelenskiy airs his grievances with Trump
Dec02

Zelenskiy airs his grievances with Trump

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a recent interview that he did not view his conversations with U.S. President Donald Trump about a potential White House visit and investigations into Trump’s political rivals from the lens of a quid pro quo — but he blasted the U.S. for treating his country like a political chess piece. In an...

World’s cartoonists on this week’s events
Nov30

World’s cartoonists on this week’s events

First published on POLITICO.eu, Belgium, November 30, 2019 | By Rytis Daukantas First published in Der Standard, Austria, November 28, 2019 | By Oliver Schopf First published in The Economist, U.K., November 30, 2019 | By Kal First published on POLITICO.com, U.S., November 27, 2019 | By Matt Wuerker First published in The Minneapolis...

[Ticker] Apple maps now ‘annex’ Crimea from Ukraine
Nov28

[Ticker] Apple maps now ‘annex’ Crimea from Ukraine

US tech firm Apple has begun showing Crimea, which Russia invaded and annexed from Ukraine in 2014, as part of Russia in its map and weather apps when these are viewed from inside Russia, but as part of Ukraine when viewed from other locations. “Crimea and Sevastopol now appear on Apple devices as Russian territory,” the Russian...

EU fears new Russia gas crisis, amid court disputes
Nov28

EU fears new Russia gas crisis, amid court disputes

Russia must pay Ukraine €2.4bn in a long-running gas dispute, a Swedish court has said, in a ruling that could lead to a repeat of the 2009 winter gas crisis in the EU. …read more Source::...

[Ticker] US envoy to EU: Sex stories are ‘witness tampering’
Nov28

[Ticker] US envoy to EU: Sex stories are ‘witness tampering’

A lawyer for the US ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, has said sexual harassment allegations against him were a form of “witness tampering” designed to harm his credibility in the impeachment enquiry against US president Donald Trump. Three women told their stories to US publications ProPublica and Portland Monthly shortly after...

Gordon Sondland denies allegations of sexual misconduct
Nov28

Gordon Sondland denies allegations of sexual misconduct

Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the EU and a major impeachment witness, was accused of sexual misconduct in a report published by ProPublica and Portland Monthly on Wednesday. Sondland and his lawyer deny the allegations. The report recounts allegations from three women — all named — who said Sondland acted in sexually inappropriate ways...