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New German-Russian meeting on Ukraine, as situation deteriorates
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51648902.jpg Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is to meet his German counterpart in Moscow next week for talks on the escalating conflict in Ukraine, Moscow said Thursday. Meanwhile, a top official from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) says the group’s observer mission in eastern...
Mogherini puts focus on Ukraine
Federica Mogherini, the new head of EU foreign and security policy, will for the first time assume the chair of the European Union’s foreign affairs council on Monday and Tuesday (17-18 November), by focusing on Ukraine and reviewing the state of defence co-operation between the EU’s member states. The major immediate decisions on...
No winners if UK heads to the exit
Britain is harming Europe and will cause further harm if it leaves the European Union. Normally, a ‘Brexit’ is discussed only in terms of the damage it might inflict on British economic and political interests. Little is said about its potentially damaging impact on the EU and its future development. This is partly a reflection of the...
A triumphalist West?
Anniversaries are marvellous excuses for lazy journalism. Instead of the difficult business of reporting real news, editors can simply ask some reliable old buffers to dust off their notebooks, polish their anecdotes, and relive their glory days. The 25th anniversary of the collapse of communism in Europe has prompted much such writing. In past...
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[Ticker] No plans for new Russia sanctions, says Merkel
German chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that the European Union is not planning new sanctions against Russia despite continued violence in Ukraine. EU foreign chief Federica Mogherini said that foreign ministers would discuss whether to increase sanctions on Russia and how to help Ukraine when meeting in Brussels 17 November. …read...
[Ticker] OSCE warns of more violence in eastern Ukraine
Following a special monitoring mission to Ukraine the OSCE’s Michael Bociurkiw warned at a press conference in Kiev on Tuesday that the risk of an escalation in violence in eastern Ukraine is “rising.” Meanwhile, US general Philip Breedlove told press that Russia has been reinforcing its bases in Crimea lately. …read more...
Ukraine-Russia border: Europe’s new wall
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new physical and militarised border is under construction, fuelled by ideological and political divisions, and allegedly funded by the European Union. The Daily Beast reports on a Ukraine government project to build a 2000-kilometre wall along its border with Russia — that, theoretically at...
Report: Russia-West military encounters rising
Author(s): KG/Associated Press west_russia_conflict.jpg A London-based think tank says Russian forces have been involved in dozens of close encounters with Western militaries since Moscow annexed Crimea — and that both sides risk losing control over events. A study by the European Leadership Network released Monday offers details on 40 incidents...
Western concern about Russian direct involvement in Ukraine
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51603414.jpg Tensions remain high in eastern Ukraine, and especially in the separatist city of Donetsk, where convoys of unmarked vehicles, troops, and heavy weaponry were spotted and which saw some of the heaviest fighting in many weeks over the weekend. The European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has...
Russian military trying to intimidate Nato
Russia has, in parallel with its war on Ukraine, instigated almost 40 incidents of “highly disturbing” near-confrontation with Nato military assets, a new British report says. …read more Source:...
