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[Ticker] EU: Ukraine-Russia gas deal ‘will be signed’
Oct05

[Ticker] EU: Ukraine-Russia gas deal ‘will be signed’

Following Russian energy minister Novak’s comments that the gas agreement with Ukraine and the EU doesn’t need a formal signature, EU Commission spokesperson Anna-Kaisa Itkonen said Monday, quoting French president Francois Hollande: “it will be signed”. The three sides agreed in September to only “initial” the...

Wounded Russia using Syria to recover | Star – Turkey
Oct05

Wounded Russia using Syria to recover | Star – Turkey

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Ukraine talks a Merkollande flop | Evenimentul Zilei – Romania
Oct05

Ukraine talks a Merkollande flop | Evenimentul Zilei – Romania

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Paris talks end in Russia-Ukraine ‘truce’
Oct03

Paris talks end in Russia-Ukraine ‘truce’

Russia-Ukraine talks in Paris ended Friday with a deal on rogue elections and weapons pull-backs, in what Ukraine called a new “truce”. …read more Source:...

Polish nonprofit tries building startup ecosystem
Oct03

Polish nonprofit tries building startup ecosystem

WARSAW — Poland is better known for its vodka than its high-tech startups, but one nonprofit here with backing from Israel is trying to create the next ecosystem for ideas. Since Poland joined the European Union in 2004, an estimated 2 million-plus Poles have left for the higher salaries and better living standards in the West. Not all of them...

The hotline to Moscow goes cold
Oct03

The hotline to Moscow goes cold

Deep inside the Pentagon, in the National Military Command Center, is the so-called red phone that has connected the U.S. and Russian high commands since after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. First a teletype, then a fax, and now a secure email and chat link, the emergency hotline was designed to prevent nuclear Armageddon. It is still tested...

Hopes for truce in Ukraine pushed to 2016
Oct02

Hopes for truce in Ukraine pushed to 2016

PARIS — French President François Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday that their efforts to broker a truce in Ukraine were back on track but would take longer than originally planned and run into 2016. After six hours of talks at the Elysée palace with Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir...

POLITICO Playbook Plus: VW bugged — Schulz succession — Farage flushed
Oct02

POLITICO Playbook Plus: VW bugged — Schulz succession — Farage flushed

Right, what the reunification show will look like… if it works. NEIN DANKE: The German government breathed a collective sigh of relief that it failed in its attempts to get Volkswagen to sponsor a Brussels event commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the German Reunification. The country’s permanent representative to the EU, Reinhard...

[Ticker] Russian stooge cheats EU blacklist in Poland
Oct02

[Ticker] Russian stooge cheats EU blacklist in Poland

Dmitri Polonski, a vice-premier in Russia-annexed Crimea in Ukraine, this week entered Poland for a meeting of the OSCE peace-monitoring body, despite being on an EU travel ban list. Polish media say he sneaked through customs by using a Russian passport with a slightly different spelling of his name. …read more Source:...

EU-mediated talks on Ukraine: Towards a Minsk 3?
Oct02

EU-mediated talks on Ukraine: Towards a Minsk 3?

France and Germany will, in Paris Friday, try to broker lasting peace between Russia and Ukraine in what could amount to a new-model “Minsk” deal. …read more Source:...