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Budget and tar sands dominate the year’s last plenary session
MEPs will devote their final plenary session of 2014 in Strasbourg next week to debating the European Union’s budget for 2015, the EU economy and whether to reject a European Commission proposal easing the way for oil from Canadian tar sands to enter the EU. This will be the sixth plenary session of the term, and the new MEPs have largely...
The splintering of Visegrád
Any statement beginning with ‘we’ is a lie, declared the French philosopher Simone Weil. At the Chateau Béla meeting last weekend – organised by an Atlanticist think-tank in the Hungarian-speaking south of Slovakia – the ‘we’ was pretty clear. ‘We’ were a bunch of hardened security wonks from central Europe, Germany, Britain and...
Putin fears his own people more than Nato | Süddeutsche Zeitung – Germany
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EU leaders to pledge more Ukraine money, threaten Russia sanctions
The EU is prepared to inject more money into Ukraine and to impose further sanctions on Russia if need be, draft summit conclusions say. …read more Source:...
EU-Russia tension: ‘Germans say “nyet”’
“Kremlin envoys are trying to woo Berlin to reach an agreement on Ukraine, but are sent back with nothing”, writes Gazeta Wyborcza. Anonymous member of the ruling coalition in Germany has told the Warsaw daily that – Russians keep telling us they respect only us [Germany] out of all EU countries and incessantly offer an agreement on Ukraine....
Turkey and the EU: membership deconstructed
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_50620836.jpg The European Union’s new foreign affairs chief is visiting Turkey to discuss the country’s troubled membership bid and the crisis in neighboring Syria and Iraq. Federica Mogherini, accompanied by the EU commissioners for humanitarian affairs and enlargement, Christos Stylianides and Johannes Hahn,...
Roberto Toscano calls for calm reaction to Putin | La Stampa – Italy
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With South Stream abandoned, Merkel accuses Putin of bullying Russia’s neighbours
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51621659.jpg “Russia is creating problems for Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Merkel accused Russia on Sunday of interfering in the domestic affairs of those countries because they are seeking closer ties to the European Union. “Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine are three countries...
[Ticker] Merkel: Russia ‘creating problems’ in EU neighbourhood
German chancellor Angela Merkel told Die Welt that Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine want to integrate with the EU, but “Russia is creating problems for all three of these countries”, pointing to frozen conflicts in Georgia and Moldova, as well as the conflict in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Why did Putin turn?
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s policy toward his country’s “near abroad” and the West has been badly misunderstood. Instead of focusing on broader geopolitical patterns – in particular, the effect of the 2007-08 financial crisis on global politics – commentators have been turning Kremlin policy into a psychodrama that can be...
