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Germany needs to calm down
The news that Germany’s BND intelligence service regularly shared classified information with the NSA is the latest in the country’s ongoing debate about surveillance. The story reached a climax when the American CIA station chief was asked to leave Berlin in July after the revelation, the year prior, that the US had tapped German...
A test of the EU’s revolving door
How hard is it for a lobbyist not to lobby? The European Commission is about to find out, after deciding to allow a former commissioner now on the payroll of a software company to continue his work as an official adviser to the EU executive, provided he refrains from promoting his new employer’s interests. In a move set to test the...
POLITICO Pro’s Morning Tech: Activist anger — Ad blocking — Dark fiber
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Kremlin hails improving U.S. ties
Russian officials hailed the Monday visit of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland as another sign of improving relations between the two countries, while criticism back in America brews over whether the trips from Nuland and Secretary of State John Kerry represent a diplomatic defeat. Nuland’s trip to Moscow comes just days...
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[Opinion] Germans and Americans differ over Russia
Disagreement over how tough to be with Russia potentially foreshadows new stress in the US-German relationship and, by extension, transatlantic solidarity over what to do about Ukraine. …read more Source:...
The missing billion
CHISINAU — Tension has been building in tiny Moldova over the last few months, ever since reports began to surface of $1 billion missing from three of the country’s leading banks, removed in the days leading up to the parliamentary elections last November. The amount, a huge sum for any country, was the equivalent of around 15 percent of...
Russia and central Europe meld on emissions goals
Russia and central Europe differ over the war in Ukraine, economic embargoes, the interpretation of history, gas exports and pipelines — but they are finding a common language when it comes to measuring emissions reductions in a way that allows them to claim steep greenhouse gas cuts without painful changes. The trick is to use a benchmark dating...
Nemtsov’s legacy exposes Putin | La Repubblica – Italy
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[Opinion] ‘We reject Soviet-style parading of military might’
The tendency to ignore lessons of the past must be stopped before it is too late, writes Petro Poroshenko. …read more Source:...
Noise on the eastern front
TALLINN — At Estonia’s Tapa military base, Lieutenant Colonel Aron Kalmus spends much of his time dealing with the rotation of US troops bringing tanks, armored personnel carriers and training skills to boost his country’s tiny army. The Baltic countries, with no proper air forces of their own, also rely on their NATO allies to patrol...
