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Seven take-aways from the FIFA arrests
There can’t be a single soccer fan anywhere in the world who didn’t have the sports-lover’s equivalent of a righteous orgasm on learning of the arrest at dawn — by the Swiss police — of seven FIFA senior officials. As of this writing, these men were being readied for extradition to the United States, where they will be...
Russia and Qatar: losers in the FIFA scandal
The Baur au Lac hotel is an old Zürich favorite. Its central location, Lake Zürich views, wood-paneled interior and reputation for discretion, make it a regular haunt for statesmen, billionaires, princes and, for the past couple decades, executives from global soccer’s governing body, FIFA. FIFA is known for its wealth — the last World Cup...
Five subplots in the EU budget
The European Commission on Wednesday unveiled what it called “a small budget with a big punch” for the EU for next year, as officials sought to justify new spending to deal with foreign policy crises. While the broad outlines of the EU budget have already been determined for the 2014-2020 period, the annual budget allows wiggle room for certain...
How Adolf Hitler Haunts Angela Merkel
Seventy years after Adolf Hitler’s suicide, Germany’s unconditional surrender in World War II and its isolation and breakup, the country is a colossus once again, and its chancellor was just named by Forbes as the world’s most powerful woman. Angela Merkel, one of the globe’s most respected and influential statespersons,...
Putin puts a brake on Eastern Partnership | LRT – Lithuania
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[Analysis] Ex-Soviet states need more EU clarity
Sooner or later, the EU will have to give a clear answer on enlargement to Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, the EU foreign service’s former top official, Pierre Vimont, says. …read more Source:...
POLITICO Pro’s Morning Tech: Facebook unbuttoned — French connectivity — Amazon tax
GOOD MORNING and welcome back to Morning Tech. Hope you had a splendid long weekend — while you’re caffeinating your way into Tuesday, here’s what you need to know about the world of tech politics and policy. As always, you can toss me tips and feedback at [email protected]. And don’t forget, if a tech savant forwarded you this...
Cameron to Juncker: EU ‘must change’
David Cameron began his whirlwind tour Monday to finesse the UK’s agenda for an EU referendum by breaking bread with Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and insisting, if politely, on the need for “change” in Brussels. At the three-hour “working dinner” — held at Cameron’s Chequers rural estate — the newly re-elected Prime...
NATO has never been more relevant
NATO is the centerpiece of US-European relations. The linchpin of the alliance is Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which states that “an armed attack against one or more of them [NATO members] in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all” and that all members are obliged to assist the state(s) under attack....
Modest Eastern Partnership summit ends modestly
RIGA — Expectations were pretty low going into the Eastern Partnership summit and in the end the meeting between European Union leaders and six post-Soviet republics lived up to that unambitious standard. Unlike the previous summit in Vilnius in late 2013, when thousands of Ukrainians had taken to the streets of Kiev to demonstrate in favor of...
