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Gorbachev could bring peace to Ukraine | The Independent – United Kingdom
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Arms to Ukraine debate divides Western allies, experts
Estonia has called on the West to arm Ukraine, but the question remains highly divisive both inside Europe and in the US. …read more Source:...
EU leaders prepare terrorism response
European Union leaders will gather in Brussels on Thursday (12 February) to seek agreement on a co-ordinated response to the terrorist threat from returning jihadist fighters in Syria. Ministers have been laying the groundwork for an EU response. Last Friday (30 January) interior ministers meeting in Riga adopted a joint statement calling for the...
Africa and Ukraine on foreign ministers’ agenda
Foreign ministers from the European Union’s member states will arrive in Brussels on Monday (9 February) for their third meeting in three weeks – but the pressure of security and political crises may still upset the scheduled agenda. The focus of the meeting is supposed to be on the EU’s relations with Africa, with ministers taking up...
Europe needs to recognise the threat from Russia
Even though some of its member states are reluctant to do so, the European Union should regard Vladimir Putin’s Russia as a serious threat to peace and stability in Europe. The impact of the EU’s graduated use of sanctions against Russia and the vast deterioration in Moscow’s relationship with the west ought to persuade any...
Putin: bad, sad or mad?
Is Vladimir Putin bad, sad or mad? Is he a sinister and effective tyrant, cleverly taking advantage of the West’s weakness? Is he balancing precariously at the head of a failing state? Or is he delusional? The short answer is that we do not really know. We do not know how Putin thinks. We do not know what information he gets. We do not know...
Fighting forces West to consider military support for Ukraine
The European Union is poised to reinforce its sanctions regime in the hope of inducing an end to the conflict in eastern Ukraine, but the debate in national capitals is increasingly turning towards a broader Western strategy that would include the provision of defensive weapons to Ukraine. When EU foreign ministers meet on Monday (9 February),...
Arming Ukraine? NATO’s dilemma
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51686095.jpg To arm or not to arm Ukraine? The 28 NATO defence ministers will have to take a decision this Thursday, when they gather in Brussels. NATO defence ministers are also expected to agree to set up command units, staffed with national and NATO soldiers, in six eastern European allies as part of a new strategy in...
[Ticker] EU blames ‘separatist offensive’ for Ukraine violence
EU foreign relations chief Mogherini has said the upsurge in violence in east Ukraine, where a shell hit a hospital in Donetsk on Wednesday claiming more civilian lives, was “provoked by the continued separatist offensive”. She called for a three-day truce to help civilians leave the town of Debaltseve. …read more Source:...
Timothy Garton Ash on Putin’s cunning game | El País – Spain
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