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NATO’s Southern Dilemma: Contesting Security Interests of the Regional Powers in the Middle East
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) finds itself between two fronts. To the East, Russia, by annexing Crimea, a Ukrainian territory, has violated the post-WW international order which has secured the decades’ long peace in Europe. To the South, the rise of extremism in the Middle East has created one of the most challenging...
NATO, EU call again on Russia to pull back its forces from Ukraine
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51602650.jpg Germany’s foreign minister on Tuesday urged the Ukrainian government and pro-Russian separatists to respect their cease-fire agreement, which has helped to halt ground combat but failed to stop daily artillery exchanges. The continuing military conflict in eastern Ukraine has killed more than 4,000 people...
Nato warns of Russian military build-up, amid EU peace talks
Nato has again warned of a “build-up” of “Russian forces” in and around Ukraine, one day after EU ministers shied away from Russia criticism. …read more Source:...
Nato warns of Russian military build-up, amid EU peace talks
Nato has again warned of a “build-up” of “Russian forces” in and around Ukraine, one day after EU ministers shied away from Russia criticism. …read more Source:...
EU presses for monitoring of Russia’s border with Ukraine
The European Union today called on Russia to allow international monitors to be deployed along the length of its border with Ukraine and took a step towards further measures against separatists in eastern Ukraine. They did not, however, indicate any plans to toughen economic sanctions on Russia. Foreign ministers from the EU’s 28 member...
EU countries keen to rebuild Russia relations
Forty eight hours after Nato said Russia is pouring troops into Ukraine, EU ministers opted to blacklist some “separatists” while trying to restart talks with Moscow. …read more Source:...
EU will target Ukraine separatists but remains reluctant on more Russia sanctions
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51571420.jpg EU foreign ministers met in Brussels on Monday as the Union mulled a list of pro-Russian Ukrainian separatists to be hit with new sanctions after disputed elections in the east of Ukraine. The ministers also decided to launch an advisory mission for civilian security sector reform in Ukraine on Dec. 1 with an...
[Ticker] EU to consider new blacklist of Ukraine ‘separatists’
EU ministers Monday tasked the EU foreign service to draft a new proposal on “additional listings targeting separatists” in east Ukraine after what they called “illegitimate” elections in self-proclaimed republics. They called on “foreign forces” to “withdraw” from Ukraine, without naming Russia,...
[Ticker] EU and Ukraine launch police reform mission
The head of a new EU mission to reform Ukraine’s civilian security forces, Hungarian diplomat Kalman Mizsei, said Monday in Brussels it will start work on 1 December with 50 EU staff. He noted it will grow to 100 EU staff and 70 local staff in the coming months. …read more Source:...
Merkel: Russia cannot veto EU expansion
Germany has warned that Russia might try to spread its “sphere of influence” to the Western Balkans, while seeking new ways to make peace on Ukraine. …read more Source:...

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