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Orban’s police state
With refugees skirting a razor-wire fence to enter the country, overflowing the Keleti station in Budapest, forced into closed migrant camps and hiking in desperation along the highways to Vienna, the Hungarian government’s brutal treatment of migrants has been on display for all to see. It is about to get much worse. According to a law...
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[Ticker] EU ministers extend Russia blacklist
EU ministers in Brussels Monday extended the duration, by six months, of visa bans and asset freezes on 150 Russians and Ukrainians deemed guilty of stoking the war. The sanctions were due to expire 15 September but will now last until March. Move comes despite hope of new peace deal. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Steinmeier sees ‘significant progress’ in Ukraine-Russia relations
There is “significant progress” towards a resolution to the war between Ukraine and Russia, German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Sunday, after meeting with foreign ministers from France, Ukraine, and Russia. “We’re hoping that Ukraine and Russia will stabilise the ceasefire in the long term”, he...
An Estonian recipe for asylum reform
TALINN — Europe is facing the biggest asylum crises since World War II, and it is here to stay. Finding a way out is not so much about fair burden-sharing, but about a political willingness to adjust the existing asylum system. It also demands a much more active and creative pursuit of a common foreign and security policy. None of the conflicts...
Why Russia Still Loves Putin
It’s a weekday afternoon in Kostroma, a drowsy provincial center 250 miles northeast of Moscow, and something is stirring in a quiet apartment yard on the city outskirts. Upbeat instrumental music is pouring out of a sound system, summoning residents—most of them military families—down for a campaign stop by Ilya Yashin, an opposition...
Trump bashes Obama before Ukrainian audience
Donald Trump took his campaign global on Friday, speaking via video link to a pro-European Ukrainian conference in Kyiv, and used the occasion to bash President Barack Obama’s foreign policy. “Our president is not strong, and he is not doing what he should be doing for the Ukraine,” Trump said, referring to the country in a way that...
[Ticker] EU and Russia draft gas deal for Ukraine
Talks between EU energy commissioner Sefcovic, Russian energy minister Novak, and Gazprom chief Miller in Vienna Friday created a “solid basis” for a deal with Ukraine, the EU said. Novak said EU will loan Ukraine $500mn to buy 2 billion cubic metres of gas, a figure still short of needs. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] France may sell Mistrals to Egypt
French security chief Louis Gautier told MPs Friday Canada, Egypt, India, and Singapore have expressed “serious” interest in buying the two “Mistral” warships which were due to go to Russia, AFP reports. He said France is paying €1.1bn to Russia for cancelling the deal, due to the Ukraine war. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Kremlin says Ukraine ceasefire could be prolonged
Kremlin aide Iouri Ouchakov told press Friday that France, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine, at a meeting on 2 October, could extend the duration of the Minsk ceasefire pact. The ceaesfire, to which the EU has tied its Russia economic sanctions, is due to expire at the end of the year. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Ukraine says Russia will cause more EU migrants
Ukraine president Petro Poroshenko said Friday that Russia’s decision to send “hundreds” of “green men”, meaning soldiers, to Syria will enflame the conflict, “provoking an ever-growing exodus of people, mostly to the EU”. He said Russia’s using Crimea as a “base of operation” to “destabilise” the Middle East. …read more Source:...
