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NATO’s Eastern Security Threats and the Need to Go Back to Basics
Occupation of the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine was supposed to be a turning point in NATO’s relations with Russia. The Wales summit, in this regards, was expected to reform policies towards the country. However, the expectations did not come true due to the fact that the member states focused more on building an international coalition...
Delegations to name their leaders
The election of MEPs to lead delegations to foreign countries has been delayed by the confirmation hearings for the nominees to the next European Commission. The more than 40 delegations of the Parliament were supposed to hold their constitutive meetings next week, but there is now a clash with the re-scheduled confirmation hearings, which start...
Threat of winter adds urgency to aid effort
The looming prospect of a winter without Russian gas is injecting fresh urgency into efforts to help Ukrainians displaced by fighting in the east of the country. But officials warn that weaknesses in Ukraine’s social security system and crisis-response mechanism are undermining support for the displaced. The European Commission has in the...
Serbia strengthens ties with Russia
European Union officials are concerned that ongoing diplomatic wrangling over Ukraine could push Serbia, which is in the first phase of negotiations to join the Union, deeper into the Russian camp. As a candidate for membership, Serbia is expected to line up with core EU foreign policies, including sanctions. But it has refused to go along with...
Hybrid warfare comes to Europe
The West is pretty good at measuring Russia’s conventional and nuclear military capabilities. But what about other weapons? As is clear from events in Ukraine – and now in the Baltic states and elsewhere – regular military muscle plays only a small part in the Kremlin’s arsenal. Its armed forces’ main job is not actual fighting,...
Ewa Kopacz – reasonable woman
Ewa Kopacz, who was sworn in as Poland’s new prime minister on 22 September, said of the challenge ahead of her: “Houses where women are in charge do well.” The 57-year old doctor, previously speaker of the Sejm, Poland’s parliament, is her country’s second female prime minister, after Hanna Suchocka in 1992-93. The foundations...
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[Ticker] Gaddafi cousin to be removed from EU sanctions list, court rules
Qadhaf Al Dam, the cousin of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, must be removed from the EU’s list of people subject to sanctions, the European Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday. Al Dam had his EU-based bank accounts frozen and has been banned from entering the bloc since 2011. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Anti-war protest in Moscow attracts thousands
Some 20,000 people, according to AP, held a march in Moscow Sunday in protest against Russia’s involvement in the Ukraine war. Protesters carried Ukrainian flags and chanted “No to war!” A smaller protest was also held in St Petersburg, in the first public challenge to Russia’s actions in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Families of German MH17 victims to sue Ukraine
Relatives of the German victims of downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 plan to sue Ukraine and its president for criminal negligence for not closing the country’s airspace, reports AFP. Elmar Giemulla, representing three German families, said he would bring the case before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. …read more...
Why Russia will not close its sky to EU airlines (and why it might)
With a new set of sanctions imposed on Russia by the EU last week, the trade war between the two sides is gaining momentum. Postulating the potential Russian response, the rumours say that the government at the Kremlin may decide to close its airspace to airlines from the EU and the USA. As alarming as these rumours sound, will Russia actually...
