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Letters to the editor
To the editors: I read with great interest your article on the fate of British officials working in the EU institutions in the event of a “Brexit” scenario (“Have Passport, Will Stay“). The article raises a number of interesting issues. It misses, however, an important point: the fate of British citizens who are getting a pension from the pension...
The Ossification of Germany
BERLIN — After the Berlin Wall came down, the West Germans liked to call the East Germans Ossis, or, better still, Jammer-Ossis. It was a derogatory term, meant to characterize East Germans as whiney and ungrateful. The East Germans, for their part, called the West Germans Besser-Wessis, a pun on the word Besserwisser, which means...
Visions of Britain
LONDON — Behind the sturm und drang of an election campaign, the leaders of Britain’s parties offer strikingly different visions. Ed Miliband wants a Swedish Britain Labour want Britain to be fully European — but outside the eurozone — more active in Eastern Europe and less beholden to Washington. His vision at home is constitutional reform...
Donbas: A new ‘black hole’ in Europe
Larceny, human rights abuses, and war damage in east Ukraine point to the creation of a new “black hole” in Europe. …read more Source:...
EU to deepen ties with former Soviet states
EU states are planning to implement the free trade treaty with Ukraine – the centrepiece of the “Eastern Partnership” – in January despite Russian objections. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Ukraine tension escalates over killings
Tensions in Ukraine continue to escalate as five Ukrainian soldiers perished in clashes with rebels in towns in and around separatist held territories of Donetsk earlier this week, reports AP. Representatives from both sides met Wednesday in Minsk to discuss ways to calm the recent upsurge in fighting. …read more Source:...
Russia to oppose EU sinking of migrant smuggler boats
Russia has indicated it will block UN approval of EU plans to sink migrant smugglers’ boats, but says the disagreement isn’t linked to Ukraine. …read more Source:...
They seek gas here, they seek gas there
The EU’s energy chiefs have been on the road, visiting authoritarian states in the Caspian region and North Africa in the hunt for future gas supply contracts that would lessen the bloc’s current dependency on Russia. In theory, there are plenty of possibilities for new piped gas imports from Turkmenistan, Algeria and even Iran or...
Important Defense move for Continent
President Barack Obama on Tuesday hailed the intelligence and combat experience of Gen. Joe Dunford, the Marine he has nominated to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation’s top uniformed military leader. “I know Joe. I trust him,” Obama said at a White House ceremony. “He’s already proven his ability to give...
[Ticker] Russia asks to postpone EU-Ukraine free trade
Russia’s EU ambassador, Vladimir Chizhov, said in Brussels Tuesday that Russia has asked the EU to postpone for one more year (until January 2017) the entry into life of the EU free trade treaty with Ukraine. He said the “idea was floated” in EU-Russia-Ukraine talks, at expert level, in April. …read more Source:...
