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[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:...
Putin heads for EU-Asia meeting
The crisis in Ukraine is likely to intrude significantly into an effort next week by the European Union to deepen its relations with Asia, as Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to attend the two-day Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit in Milan. The arrival of Putin, whose country is now subject to extensive EU sanctions because of its...
The ebb-tide of central European Atlanticism
Friendly criticism sometimes works. Unfriendly criticism usually doesn’t. That is the problem with which the United States is grappling as it tries to stem the decline of Atlanticism in large parts of central and eastern Europe. In Washington, DC, last week, Victoria Nuland, the senior State Department official dealing with the continent,...
Juncker faces local and global difficulties
Adversity is wonderful for concentrating the mind, so Jean-Claude Juncker, the incoming president of the European Commission, should be concentrating very hard just now. Juncker faces two kinds of adversity: parochial and global. The global context will be painfully outlined in the coming days during the annual meetings of the International...
Russia and US politics unsettle TTIP talks
European Union and United States trade negotiators met last week near Washington, DC, for a week of talks heavily influenced by the approach of mid-term elections in the US and amid increasing pressures from the EU to re-shape the negotiations. The chief negotiators on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) – Ignacio Garcia...
[Ticker] Drones arrive in Ukraine to monitor border
Two unmanned aerial vehicles – drones – have arrived Monday in Ukraine to monitor the border with Russia, and will be operated by Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, AFP reports. The month-old ceasefire in Ukraine is, in the words of Russian president Putin, still “extremely fragile”. …read more...
Mogherini takes the helm
Federica Mogherini’s hearing before the European Parliament was never going to be a dramatic event. The question was what type of event it would be. Swiftly, it became more apparent what the evening could become. The future chief of the European Union’s foreign policy arrived in a crowd of journalists and set about gladhanding with...
Pro-Western government wins Latvia elections
Latvia’s top Russia-friendly party scored worse than in previous elections and is likely to stay out of government, amid concerns over Russia’s war on Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Russia’s information war in Lithuania
The Lithuanian State Security Department has issued a booklet with tips on how to recognise a spy as citizens amid a febrile atmosphere in the aftermath of Russia’s agression in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Russia-friendly party wins most votes in Latvia
Saskanas Centrs, a left-wing Russia-friendly party in Latvia won 23% of votes in elections Saturday, but a coalition of centre-right ethnic Latvian parties got 60% and is set to stay in power. The result puts Saskanas Centrs five points lower than in 2011, amid concerns over Russia’s actions in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
