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How six words divided the EU and Israel
Jan04

How six words divided the EU and Israel

Israel’s U.S. ambassador sent gift boxes for the 2015 holiday season containing wine, olive oil, body cream, and halva — and a defiant note calling out the European Union. The products came from what the international community considers to be occupied territories, and Ambassador Ron Dermer was determined to make a blunt point about the...

[Focus] Europe in Review 2015 – Russia-EU relations: From Ukraine to Syria
Dec31

[Focus] Europe in Review 2015 – Russia-EU relations: From Ukraine to Syria

The anti-Ukraine and anti-Western propaganda became so shrill EU leaders launched a new counter-propaganda cell in the EU foreign service. …read more Source:...

How Barack will juggle Bibi, Vlad and Hillary
Dec30

How Barack will juggle Bibi, Vlad and Hillary

Bibi Netanyahu is waiting him out. Vladimir Putin may try to test him. And Hillary Clinton is keeping a wary eye on him. As he enters the final year of his presidency, Barack Obama will find his foreign policy complicated in new ways by the clock ticking down to his last day in office. White House officials have studied up on the foreign...

2015, an awful year for Europe’s free media
Dec30

2015, an awful year for Europe’s free media

LONDON — It was a terrible year for journalists in Europe. Attacks by Islamic militants, unjustified arrests, assaults, harassment, threats and tougher legal restrictions made it harder for editors, reporters and photographers to hold the powerful to account across the region this year, according to media organizations and NGOs. Hopes that...

Obama’s 2016 world tour
Dec29

Obama’s 2016 world tour

President Barack Obama will be making good use out of Air Force One while he still can. Obama has asked aides to set a busy international travel schedule for him in his final year, with “half a dozen” trips already in the works and more potentially coming together. The travel will be aimed at cementing a foreign policy legacy he hopes will...

Big victories for international diplomacy | Tages-Anzeiger – Switzerland
Dec29

Big victories for international diplomacy | Tages-Anzeiger – Switzerland

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EU emerges relatively unscathed from 2015 | Kapital – Bulgaria
Dec29

EU emerges relatively unscathed from 2015 | Kapital – Bulgaria

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Lavrov: Most EU leaders think confrontation a mistake
Dec28

Lavrov: Most EU leaders think confrontation a mistake

European leaders are less hostile to Russia over Ukraine than they are letting on, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. “Sometimes there is a contradiction between what they say on the podium and what they tell you tête-à-tête, when no one else hears them,” Lavrov said in an interview with the Zvezda television channel, broadcast Monday....

[Ticker] Observers shot at in east Ukraine
Dec28

[Ticker] Observers shot at in east Ukraine

International monitors of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe came under fire Sunday in the Ukrainian village Kominternove, AP reported. There were no injuries, but the incident showed how fragile the ceasefire the observers are monitoring is. …read more Source:...

In pictures: Training to fight for Ukraine
Dec28

In pictures: Training to fight for Ukraine

Fifty kilometers west of the Russian border in the eastern Ukrainian province of Luhansk, new recruits — eager to defend their country against pro-Russian separatist forces — are put through their paces. Photojournalist Filip Warwick, currently based in Ukraine, recently spent a week with them. The training takes place in an ex-Soviet Youth...