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[Ticker] Ukraine PM wins asset-freeze court case
The EU was wrong to impose an asset freeze on former Ukrainian PM Mykola Azarov and four other officials between 2014 and 2015, the EU court ruled on Thursday, citing a lack of evidence of “misappropriation of state funds”. A separate asset freeze from 2015 to 2016 still stands. …read more Source:...
Moderate Iran is a fantasy
The nuclear agreement between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the P5+1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, the U.K. and the U.S.) was a significant development. But there are a number of reasons why it should be considered with more caution than excitement. Is it really a landmark achievement for world peace and security? Many friends of the...
[Interview] Ukraine’s ex-PM hopes to get off EU list this week
Mykola Azarov is hoping the EU court will, this week, strike him off the EU blacklist so that he can work, more easily, to unseat the government in Kiev. …read more Source:...
What the next president must do about Putin
Madam/Mr. President-to-be-elected, you will enter office facing Vladimir Putin’s Russia as a potential geostrategic threat to the United States. You will need a strategy to counter and resist this threat, which is only growing. At the moment, Putin appears to be closer to prevailing in Syria and holding steady in Ukraine, Georgia and...
The Hidden Consequences of the Oil Crash
For months, American drivers have been greeted at gas stations with a pleasant surprise: Gas prices have fallen by half, dropping an average of more than $2 a gallon since their most recent peak in 2011. President Barack Obama took a moment to bask in the credit last week in his State of the Union speech: “Gas under two bucks a gallon ain’t...
[Ticker] Soros funds Dutch Yes campaign in Ukraine vote
Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros is donating €200,000 to the Yes side in the Dutch referendum on the EU-Ukraine association agreement, through his Open Society Foundation, Dutch broadcaster NOS reported Friday. Voters will express their opinion about the deal in a non-binding vote on 6 April. …read more Source:...
Poland quibbles over who’s a refugee and who’s a migrant
WARSAW — Beata Szydło sought to deflect pressure for Poland to take asylum seekers by telling the European Parliament that the country is already doing its share. “You speak of migration — that’s a serious problem. Poland has taken in around a million refugees from Ukraine. People whom no one wanted to help,” Poland’s prime minister...
Only America can fix EU security mess
The narrow and strategically vital Strait of Gibraltar at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea is sometimes called “The Pillars of Hercules.” The ancient Greeks believed it to be a by-product of one of Hercules’ mythical labors, which required him to leave the civilized world behind and venture into the chaos and danger of the distant...
Lord Weidenfeld’s European century
The last time I saw George Weidenfeld was two years ago at his club in central London. Anyone who knew “Lord” Weidenfeld was aware that any conversation with him would invariably flow rapidly through politics, art, music, theater, literature, history, travel, you name it. It could be dizzying. It was always charming and illuminating. In that...
EU stabs Kiev in the back with Nord Stream 2 | Savon Sanomat – Finland
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