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Putin’s aggressive nationalism leads nowhere | ABC – Spain
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Hollande to meet Merkel on migration, Ukraine
Hollande travelling to Berlin on Monday to discuss the growing migrant crisis and Ukraine with Merkel after a tense weekend. …read more Source:...
Sweden and Finland’s awkward NATO tango
HELSINKI — Finland and Sweden have spent decades toying with NATO membership, but now the renewed threat from Russia is forcing the pace in the two neutral countries as they weigh joining the Atlantic alliance while Moscow reacts with grim warnings. Stockholm has now named a special ambassador to evaluate Sweden’s relationship with NATO and...
Eastern Europe afraid of Russia | Pravda – Slovakia
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Merkel’s Germany, a part-time hegemon
BERLIN — After he’d defeated a Roman army in 279 BC, King Pyrrhus of Epirus uttered his famous words: Another victory like this and we are lost. Does the same go for Angela Merkel? Indeed, what were perceived as her latest victories in Brussels and Berlin were, if anything, pyrrhic ones. They have probably put an end to her decade of...
Ukraine shelling prompts cease-fire diplomacy
The leaders of France and Germany will meet Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Berlin on Monday as part of a fresh diplomatic push to salvage the cease-fire, which has been further undermined by an outbreak of shelling in the Donetsk region. Chancellor Angela Merkel and President François Hollande will meet Poroshenko to try to end the...
The world according to Duda
SZCZECIN, Poland — Barely a week into his term, Poland’s new president is moving to realize a hallmark campaign promise: To pivot central Europe’s most important country to closer security ties with its immediate eastern neighbors. In so doing, Andrzej Duda courts confrontation with Russia and strains in Poland’s recent good...
[Ticker] Ukraine hopes for EU visa-free travel by end-of-year
Ukraine president Poroshenko is to visit Brussels by the end of the month amid a flare-up in violence in east Ukraine. He spoke by phone with EU commission president Juncker Tuesday, voicing hope of an EU visa-free deal in December and confirming plans to implement EU-Ukraine free trade in January. …read more Source:...
EU urges both sides to stop shelling in Ukraine
The EU foreign service has urged both sides to stop ceasefire violations in Ukraine, in a situation dubbed “explosive” by Germany. …read more Source:...
Behind Putin’s nuclear threats
HELSINKI — When Leonid Brezhnev was in charge of the Soviet Union, he did not see much need to threaten Europe with his country’s vast nuclear arsenal: The USSR’s overwhelming advantage in tanks, artillery and men meant that it was the U.S. which had to be ambiguous about the first use of its nuclear weapons to stop a potential Soviet...
