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Eastern Partnership: in search of meaning
Twenty-five EU leaders and six former Soviet states meeting in the shadow of the Ukraine crisis and amid divergent views on future relations. …read more Source:...
The Parliament is bored
STRASBOURG — Ask people in Brussels what they think about MEPs, and they will often roll their eyes. The European Parliament has long been derided as a haven for lazy or disgraced politicians who do little more than churn out boring reports full of acronyms and footnotes. That perception has changed in recent years as the EU treaty handed the...
‘The queen of Austria’
LONDON — It’s April 15 and the Austrian drag queen Conchita Wurst is sitting inside a small theater at the London Book Fair. To her left rests a six-foot high image of her autobiography “Being Conchita,” which has already been translated into five languages. The cover photo — a close-up of her face — is so detailed you can count her...
Eastern Partnership summit likely to disappoint
Thousands of Ukrainians braved clubs and bullets last year to show they wanted a European future for their country; this week’s Eastern Partnership summit in Riga will likely show them that the door still isn’t open. According to signals from Brussels, the EU is not only going to avoid mentioning Ukraine’s possible membership,...
Saving Macedonia
The huge anti-rallies in Skopje this week are the largest peaceful demonstrations in Macedonia’s short history of independence. Somewhere between 40,000 to 100,000 people turned out to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his cabinet. The protesters were not discouraged by government orders for state employees and...
Saving ‘Juncker’s baby’
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is scrambling to salvage a controversial piece of his migration strategy: a quota system for the relocation of refugees across the EU. The plan — which aims to ease the migrant pressure on countries like Italy or Greece by moving refugees to other EU nations — has become a personal project of the...
The inglorious Bundeswehr
Last September, while Ukrainian troops were battling pro-Russian separatists on the eastern edges of Europe, a German battalion participated in a NATO exercise in Norway. They didn’t have any weapons with them, but the German army, the Bundeswehr, has long been used to shortages of equipment. So the soldiers knew what to do: They took a...
Ukraine more important for EU than Greece | Dagens Nyheter – Sweden
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Russia to reward EU sanctions critics with food exports
Russia says firms from Cyprus, Greece, and Hungary – the leading critics of EU sanctions – will be first in line to restart food exports if relations improve. …read more Source:...
[Feature] A year in Ukraine: from Maidan to Donbas
Canadian photojournalist Christopher Bobyn reports from the contact line in the Ukraine-Russia conflict. …read more Source:...
