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[Ticker] UK unveils new fund for EU’s eastern neighbours
The UK, at a summit in Brussels on Thursday, pledged €21mn in new money for a “good governance fund” to help build European-type institutions in Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Bosnia, and Serbia. A British source said EU neighbouring states are facing “Russian pressure” and need “expert” help to make “hard...
[Ticker] EU sanctions on Russia to stay in place
EU economic sanctions on Russia are to stay in place until the “complete implementation of the Minsk [ceasefire] agreements, bearing in mind that this isn’t foreseen until the end of 2015”, EU Council chief Tusk said Thursday following an EU summit. “Our common intention is very, very clear”, he added. …read...
Merkel in favour of keeping Russia sanctions
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51850638.jpg European Union leaders look likely to keep economic sanctions on Russia in place until a Ukraine ceasefire deal is fully working, after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday it would be wrong to ease pressure on Moscow prematurely. EU governments have until now been divided on whether to act now to...
Ukraine urges EU to keep up sanctions on Russia
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51830845.jpg Ukraine urged the European Union on Thursday to stay united in keeping up sanctions pressure on Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine, as EU leaders gathered for a two-day summit. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that if Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to divide Europe over...
Leaders to hold Greece talks in margins of EU summit
EU leaders will talk about energy, Ukraine, Libya and transatlantic trade. But the most heated issue – Greece – will be addressed in the margins of the summit. …read more Source:...
Russia and energy on summit agenda
Many leaders of the European Union’s member states are heading into a two-day summit today expecting a relatively quiet meeting, but fearful that a topic that is not on the agenda, Greece’s battle with its creditors, will disrupt the meeting and sour the mood. The summit will start with a conversation with Martin Schulz, the president...
EU struggles to find consensus on Libya
Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, is asking European leaders to consider deploying troops to Libya to help international efforts to stabilise the country, but the idea has been greeted warily. She has also encountered deep scepticism about proposals to create camps in Libya to house would-be migrants to Europe....
Crimea Tatars living ‘in fear’
The leader of the Crimean Tatars has warned that, 12 months after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, his community is living in an “atmosphere of fear and intimidation”, and is being weakened by migration. Mustafa Dzhemilev, a Soviet-era dissident who has been thrown out of Crimea, said in Brussels on 17 March that a United Nations calculation...
How to lose friends and alienate people
Friendship generates goodwill and friends in need of favours can usually expect offers of help and understanding. The European Union’s political culture attaches a premium to co-operation and solidarity because the club cannot successfully function without them. Member states only lose the goodwill of their partners in extreme...
Imagining Russia without Putin
Prescient or preposterous? Vladimir Putin’s absence from public life sparked a frenzy of speculation last week. Some commentators thought a backstage coup was under way or at least a full-scale Kremlin power struggle, in which the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov (a staunch ally of Putin) was ranged against the siloviki of the security and...
