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POLITICO Brussels Playbook — UK general election special
by Ryan Heath @PoliticoRyan | send tips to [email protected] Welcome to a special UK election edition of Brussels Playbook: your guide to what’s about to happen in Britain and what you need to know come May 8. BUT FIRST, A REMINDER: Today is the six-month anniversary of the Juncker Commission. AND SOME EU SPEED READS: 1) ORBÁN BACKS AWAY...
Ex-U.S., Russian brass: ‘De-alert’ nukes or risk disaster
Amid all the talk about a new Cold War, here’s one hard, cold fact: Nearly 25 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Washington and Moscow still have nearly 2,000 atomic bombs ready to fly at a moment’s notice to destroy each other. And that so-called hair-trigger alert is now sparking new concerns that deepening distrust...
POLITICO Brussels Playbook — Refugee burden-sharing — Orbán cowboy — Microsoft lobbying
by Ryan Heath @PoliticoRyan | send tips to [email protected] GERMANY MOVES THE DIAL ON ASYLUM QUOTAS: The Guardian breaks the story that Germany is now pushing hard to revamp Europe’s handling of refugees, demanding a quota system so all 28 countries share the burden. Currently Germany and Sweden take in most of the migrants who arrive on...
Poles and Czechs join forces on gas
Historically Poles and Czechs have been frequent rivals — they even fought a nasty little border war a century ago — but their dependence on Russian gas and the EU’s pressure to more tightly integrate the continent’s gas markets are pushing the two closer together. The border town of Cieszyn in Poland and Český Těšín in the Czech...
Europe’s Galápagos moment
Ten years ago, I wrote a book claiming Europe would run the 21st century. With many now predicting “Grexit” or “Brexit,” and some people asking if the European Union will even survive the decade, was I insane? The book is not quite as hubristic as it sounds. I did not argue that the EU would have the largest economy or run the world as an empire....
Artillery fire increases after EU-Ukraine summit
People fleeing a city deep inside Ukraine’s rebel held Donesk region are reporting heavy shelling and artillery fire. …read more Source:...
POLITICO Brussels Playbook — Migration political crisis — Vestager’s second strategy — NATO rumblings
By Ryan Heath @PoliticoRyan | [email protected] MIGRATION CLASH TODAY: The European Parliament is set to undermine the Council’s recent round of self-congratulation after tripling the budget of its border patrol operation Triton in response to the Mediterranean refugee crisis. WHO’S LEADING THE CHARGE? Dutch MEP and Liberal faction...
Report: Russian cyber-spying tracked military campaign
A cyber-espionage campaign against Ukrainian security agencies ebbed and flowed with the tide of kinetic military activity by Russian and pro-Russian forces, even stopping during a ceasefire, according to a new report. The campaign, dubbed “Operation Armageddon,” has been publicly blamed by the Ukrainian intelligence service on Russia’s...
Putin to spend €643mn on media this year
Russia is to spend €643 million this year on subsidising media, amid EU efforts to strike back at “disinformation” on the Ukraine war. …read more Source:...
A new approach to helping Ukraine
Despite a sizeable $17.5 billion loan to Ukraine announced by the International Monetary Fund in March, there is a disconcerting sense that Western leaders are losing interest in the country. Not surprisingly, no new aid packages for Ukraine were announced at the recent meetings of the IMF and the World Bank. Meanwhile, President Obama still...
