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Germany to snub Putin’s WWII parade
Merkel has decided to boycott a WWII memorial parade in Moscow on 9 May due to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] IMF signs off $17.5bn loan to Ukraine
The IMF’s executive board approved a $17.5 billion loan to Ukraine on Wednesday. The four-year programme to help the conflict-stricken nation had already been announced. “It will be used to stabilise the currency. It will enable the Ukrainian economy to grow from 2016,” said Ukrainian prime minister Yatseniuk. …read more...
Africa in foreign ministers’ focus
The European Union’s relations with Africa are currently top of the agenda for a meeting of EU foreign ministers on Monday (16 March). The ministers had originally been expected to talk about Africa on 9 February, but instead spent two hours debating whether to delay sanctions against 19 Russians and Ukrainians by a week to help an emerging...
Russian threat looms large over EU summit
European Union leaders will discuss the threat posed by Russia at next week’s European Council (19-20 March). The immediate challenge will be how the EU should respond to violations of the Minsk agreement – the ceasefire negotiated by Angela Merkel, the German chancellor and François Hollande, the French president, on the eve of the last...
Moldovan leadership takes EU reform track
Moldova’s new prime minister will on Monday lead a large delegation to Brussels to set out his government’s plans for implementing a months-old agreement intended to modernise the country’s economy and deepen relations with the European Union. Chiril Gaburici and as many as five ministers will meet Federica Mogherini, EU high...
Europe struggles to find its voice in Russian-language media war
Boris Nemtsov was no fan of Russian media. The opposition politician, who was assassinated in central Moscow last month, believed the use of political propaganda by the Russian government had reached dangerous levels, and drastic means were required to counter it. Krzysztof Bobinski, from the Warsaw-based think-tank Unia & Polska, met Nemtsov...
Has Russia been treated arrogantly?
One of the West’s most attractive qualities is self-criticism, but taken to extremes it corrodes self-confidence, and thus our ability to defend ourselves. We do not take our values, our promises or our allies seriously. Two new books exemplify this. One is “Frontline Ukraine: crisis in the borderlands”, by Richard Sakwa, a British academic...
Machiavelli in Euroland
Niccolò Machiavelli is trending. More than 500 years after writing his famous treatise The Prince, Machiavelli has re-emerged as one of Europe’s most popular political thinkers. And, indeed, his book – one of the earliest political ‘how to’ manuals – has some useful advice for economic policymakers at a time of extraordinarily...
Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania create joint brigade
Author(s): NEOnline | TB pld.jpg A joint military brigade will bring together the armed forces from Ukraine and Nato members Poland and Lithuania in order to ensure stability in the region. The creation of the military unit is also seen as a path to bring conflict-stricken Ukraine closer to Nato and the European Union. …read more Source:...
[Opinion] More union in European defence
If Europe is “forged in crises”, the current situation in Ukraine and in the Middle East calls for the forging of a European Defence Union. …read more Source:...
