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POLITICO Caucus participants: February 2016
Find the article on POLITICO’s Caucus poll here. Joaquín Almunia, Former Vice President and European Commpetrssioner for Competition, European Commission, Brussels; Former Leader of the Opposition and Minister of Employment, Madrid Petras Austrevicius, Lithuanian MEP, Chairman of delegation for relations with Afghanistan, Vice Chair of...
Hungary: EU sanctions on Russia unlikely to be renewed
Hungary has said EU economic sanctions on Russia won’t be renewed when they expire in mid-2016. Russia confirmed it will help Hungary to pay for a new nuclear plant. …read more Source:...
Soccer player in trouble for pro-Putin T-shirt
Russian soccer club Lokomotiv Moscow is in hot water after midfielder Dmitri Tarasov unveiled a T-shirt praising Vladimir Putin in a match against Turkish side Fenerbahçe. Tarasov took off his shirt after his side’s 2-0 loss in the Europa League in Istanbul on Tuesday to reveal a T-shirt with Putin’s face and the words “Most polite...
Ukraine’s PM survives no-confidence vote
KIEV — Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the prime minister of Ukraine, received another lease of political life Tuesday when the country’s parliament rejected a no-confidence motion that would have seen him and his cabinet removed from office. Supporters of the motion fell well short of the 226 votes needed to remove the government, with 194 voting to...
Ukraine heads into the abyss
This week, Ukraine’s ruling political elite is doing what it does best: behaving irresponsibly. On this occasion, Ukraine’s leaders have plunged the country into a potential political crisis that comes at a time when Ukraine faces strains on its hard currency reserves, weak economic performance, and signs of an upsurge in violence on...
[Ticker] Ukraine PM survives no confidence vote
Ukraine PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk survived a vote of no confidence in parliament on Wednesday, the BBC reports, shortly after president Petro Poroshenko had asked him to resign over lack of reform. The former prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin, did step down after Poroshenko had also asked him to go. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Ukraine leader sacks PM, prosecutor
Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko has publicly asked for the resignation of prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and of the prosecutor general Viktor Shokin. He said they “failed to gain trust” on anti-corruption reforms. Shock move comes after Lithuanian economy minister Aivaras Abromavicius resigned and the IMF threatened to hold...
An Eastern European frozen conflict the EU got right
Even as Russia and the West rang in the new year still publicly at loggerheads over Ukraine, the EU sealed a deal with Russia over another Eastern European frozen conflict zone: Transnistria. The unrecognized statelet of Transnistria broke away from newly independent Moldova in 1990, and is famous as a Soviet nostalgia theme park. Its statues of...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko urges PM Yatsenyuk to resign
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Tuesday he wanted Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to step down, following a series of high-profile resignations from his increasingly unpopular government. Presidential spokesman Svyatoslav Tsegolko tweeted: “In order to restore trust in the government, the president asked the prosecutor general and...
EU lifts most sanctions against Belarus
EU countries agreed Monday to lift most of the sanctions the bloc had imposed against Belarus in recognition of steps taken by the former Soviet state over the past two years, but said some human rights concerns remain. Foreign ministers meeting in Brussels decided not to extend restrictive measures against 170 individuals and three companies in...
