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[Ticker] EU and Kazakhstan sign co-operation treaty
The EU and Kazakhstan have signed a “co-operation” pact on closer trade and political ties. European Commission chief Barroso said in Brussels at a meeting with Kazakhstan’s Nazarbayev that “Europe is open to building strong and solid relations with the members of the [Russian] Customs Union” despite the Ukraine...
[Ticker] Ukraine: No winter gas deal without Gazprom signature
Ukraine’s gas distributor, Naftogaz, has said it won’t sign an EU-backed interim deal on winter prices with Russia unless Russian supplier Gazprom signs a binding contract. It said Thursday it is “surprised” Russia wants to exclude Gazprom as a signatory. “Without it, no deal can be reached”, its statement...
Belarus: Ukraine crisis brings Lukashenko into the game
“If one country has benefitted from the Ukraine crisis, it’s Belarus,” writes Nezavissimaïa Gazeta, noting Minsk has recently brushed off its international pariah status and that the peers of President Alexander Lukashenko no longer treat him as the leader no one wants to be seen with. But if Belarus’s role in the negotiations to...
EU-Ukraine: ‘Brussels and Kiev ratify association agreement’
On 16 September the European and Ukrainian Parliaments simultaneously ratified on a large majority the EU-Ukraine association agreement, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The agreement’s economic part will come into force in 2016, specifies the German daily, according to which before then — the parties will have to find a solution to...
European Security: ‘Assuring the Balts’
Speaking in Tallinn, Estonia, on 3 September, on the way to the Nato summit in Wales, United States president Barack Obama assured the Baltic States they are safe under the military pact’s umbrella, Gazeta Wyborcza reports. President Obama stressed that — we will defend our Nato allies, and that means every ally. In this alliance, there are...
EU-Russia: ‘Ukraine — War against Europe’
“The European Union is about to set up new sanctions against Russia if the situation in Ukraine has not drifted towards an ending to the crisis within a week”, writes Libération, according to which Russian president Vladimir Putin “does not like ultimatums and does not believe in the effectiveness of Western sanctions”. After “being long...
Crisis in Ukraine: ‘Invasion’
Two days after talks took place in Minsk between the Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Kiev accused Russia on 28 August of having “deployed army units on the Ukrainian territory”, reports Den. According to the Kiev daily, Previously Russia has supplied heavy weapons and mercenaries to the...
Crisis in Ukraine: ‘Nato will have a spearhead’
In an attempt to bolster the security of its Eastern flank in Europe, Nato plans to develop its rapid response forces, the pact’s chief Anders Foghs Rasmussen said in an interview given to six major European newspapers, headlines Gazeta Wyborcza. The plan will require that Nato pre-positions basic equipment and supplies in host nations....
Crisis in Ukraine: ‘Meeting with “Putin’s reality”’
On 26 August Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko met his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in the Belarussian capital of Minsk, during an EU-Ukraine-Eurasian Union summit, reports Den. After the meeting, the first direct talks on the crisis in his country, Poroshenko said that “a roadmap will be prepared in order to achieve, as soon as...
[Ticker] Putin to meet EU leaders in Milan
Russian president Vladimir Putin is to hold bilaterals with French, German, and Italian leaders at an EU-Asia summit in Milan on 15 and 16 October, Italian press agency Ansa reports citing a Putin aide. The aide said Putin might also meet Ukraine’s Poroshenko amid a fragile ceasefire in the war. …read more Source:...
