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[Ticker] Putin: Ukraine ceasefire to start at midnight on Saturday
Russian leader Vladimir Putin said in Minsk on Thursday the ceasefire in Ukraine is to start at midnight on 15 February, involve withdrawal of heavy weaponry from “today’s contact line”, and “constitutional reform that should take into account the legal rights of Donbas residents”, Tass reports. …read more...
[Ticker] Minsk talks end in Ukraine ceasefire deal
Russian president Putin said in Minsk after 14-hour long talks with France, Germany, and Ukraine that “we have managed to agree on the main issues” of a Ukraine ceasefire deal, the BBC reports. France called it a “serious deal”. Meanwhile, the EU summit in Brussels is to be slightly delayed. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] IMF announces €15.5bn Ukraine package
The International Monetary Fund will give Ukraine €15.5 billion over the next four years in return for an “economic reform programme” which the government in Kiev has approved. “It’s an ambitious programme, a tough programme and it’s not without risk. But it’s also a realistic programme,” IMF chief Lagarde...
[Ticker] Ukraine talks: ‘No good news yet’
Ukraine leader Poroshenko told press in Minsk Thursday morning after 13 hours of talks there is “no good news yet” and that “some” Russian ceasefire conditions are “unacceptable”. Earlier reports by Reuters and Russian wires said talks are to yield a 12 or 13-point declaration on a ceasefire starting Saturday....
What might scare Putin’s regime?
Something must be done. This is something. So let’s do it. That (put crudely) is the way Western foreign policy thinking works when confronted with a tough problem. Two ‘somethings’ were under discussion here at the Munich Security Conference: the Franco-German diplomatic initiative to end the war in Ukraine, and the American idea of...
EU leaders focus on Ukraine
The leaders of France and Germany will take centre stage today when European leaders turn to the conflict in eastern Ukraine at their informal summit in Brussels. As European Voice went to print, Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s François Hollande were still holding crisis talks with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and...
Possible deal on Ukraine to be signed in Minsk on Thursday
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51793792.jpg Russia’s state-owned RIA Novosti news agency is citing Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying that a possible deal in Minsk won’t be signed “today,” but maybe “tomorrow”, Thursday. The talks in Minsk are brokered by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois...
How Greece could make things worse
The European Union is currently engaged in two games of bluff, each of them of enormous importance to the future development of Europe. The smaller contest is between the newly-elected government of Greece and the other countries of the eurozone, over whether or not the bail-out provided by international lenders should be prolonged, and on what...
