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How to weaken alliances
Damaging myths about Europe’s security beset thinking here in the American capital. Barack Obama’s administration still believes that the crisis is essentially temporary and minor. His Republican critics in Congress believe it can be solved by arming Ukraine. Many policymakers believe that the conflict with Vladimir Putin’s...
Too important to neglect
The European Commission published yesterday (25 March) its annual reports on the European Union’s neighbouring countries. Collectively, they convey an impression of instability close at hand. The European reader has good reason to be grateful for the resilience of Ukraine, Tunisia, Lebanon and Jordan. The neighbourhood reports do not,...
Juozas Olekas – Doctor-politician
As Russia continues to flex its muscles in the east, Juozas Olekas, Lithuania’s defence minister, is having a busy time. Less than a year ago, he was urging Lithuanians to “sleep tight” and not panic. Since then, Lithuania has reinforced its reputation as one of Ukraine’s staunchest supporters in the EU – and one of the harshest...
Insecurity casts pall over EU’s backyard
The European Commission today (25 March) published reports on 12 states neighbouring the European Union that collectively show that conflicts in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Libya and Palestine have significantly constrained the EU’s efforts to promote trade, human rights and political reform. Nonetheless, the reports by the European Commission,...
EU criticises most neighbours, praises Moldova
Author(s): Dan Alexe Ukraine.jpg In a set of annual reports adopted today, the European Commission assessed the implementation of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) with the 16 partner countries in the East and the South and made recommendations for the year ahead. …read more Source: New...
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[Ticker] Ukraine’s default ‘virtually 100%’ certain
The Moody’s rating agency downgraded Ukraine’s rating on Wednesday (25 March) to Ca, the second-worst level. Moody’s notes that the Ukrainian government plans “to restructure the majority of its outstanding Eurobonds”. That means that the risk of “a default on government debt taking place is virtually...
[Ticker] Yanukovych’s son buried in Crimea
Russian newswire Tass reports that Viktor Yanukovych jr., son of the deposed Ukrainian president, has been buried in Crimea, a Ukrainian region annexed by Russia. It says the 33-year old, who was on an EU blacklist, died on 20 March when his vehicle drove into Lake Baikal, in central Russia. …read more Source:...
Tatar leaders warn about Russia's grim intentions in Crimea
Author(s): Dan Alexe Crimea Tatars.jpg Crimean Tatars are in danger of being totally wiped out from their ancestral lands, warned Refat Chubarov, the of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis (Parliament). Chubarov told the Subcommittee on Security and Defence of the EU parliament on Tuesday that Moscow’s attempt to russify the territory since it annexed...
Putin denies Ukrainian nation | Lietuvos Žinios – Lithuania
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User comments should be scrapped | Handelsblatt – Germany
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