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[Ticker] EU and Russia to hold new gas talks
The EU will hold fresh talks with Russia and Ukraine on September 26 in a bid to settle their dispute over gas supplies to Ukraine, AFP reports. Russia says that Ukraine owes €4.1 billion in unpaid bills, with the two sides still to agree on the price for future supplies. …read more Source:...
Sikorski leaves Polish government
Poland’s prime minister-designate, Ewa Kopacz, has removed Radek Sikorski as foreign minister as part of an otherwise limited change in government caused by Donald Tusk’s election as president of the European Council. Kopacz is due to take over from Tusk as prime minister on 22 September. Her government, a two-party centre-right...
No US weapons for Ukraine
Author(s): Dan Alexe 51576047.jpg Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko came back from the US without having obtained military support. Poroshenko hoped to convince the US president Barack Obama to provide weapons to Ukrainian government forces battling pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. Before the September 18 meeting with President...
EU sanctions on Iran’s central bank overturned
The European Court of Justice has struck down the European Union’s decision to freeze the assets of Iran’s central bank, in the latest of a series of legal blows to the sanctions regime imposed by the EU to persuade Iran not to develop nuclear weapons. Yesterday’s ruling, against which the EU’s member states can still...
[Ticker] Russia complains of Lithuania ‘provocations’
The Russian foreign ministry has complained after a WWII statue of Soviet soldiers was painted blue and yellow, the colours of the Ukrainian flag, in Lithuania. It said Thursday it is “demanding urgent measures to clean up the monuments, punish those responsible and prevent similar provocations in the future”. …read more Source:...
Ukraine says Europe at risk of ‘terrible … war’
Ukraine leader Poroshenko has warned the US that Europe is at risk of a “terrible … war”, but failed to get American weapons in return. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Malta rejects ship carrying suspected Ebola patient
The Maltese authorities on Tuesday refused entry to a merchant vessel en route from Guinea to Ukraine on suspicion that a Filipino patient on board showed Ebola virus symtoms, Malta Today reports. Italian authorities have now taken the patient while the ship continued on its way towards Ukraine. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Russia says EU-Ukraine trade deal to be ‘modified’
The Russian foreign ministry said Thursday it “hopes” the EU and Ukraine will before 2016 honour its complaints by “modifying” the free trade treaty ratified this week. It said that instead of EU free trade with eastern partners, there should be a single free trade area in “Greater Europe”. …read more...
Greens quit Finnish government in nuclear row
The Green League today (18 September) quit the five-party Finnish coalition government in protest at a decision to build a nuclear power plant in the north of the country. Nuclear power company Fennovoima’s application to build the country’s fifth nuclear power plant was approved in 2010 but changes in the firm’s plans needed to...
[Ticker] Putin: My troops could reach Warsaw in two days
Russia’s Putin recently told Ukraine’s Poroshenko: “If I wanted to, Russian troops could, in two days, be not only in Kiev but also in Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Warsaw and Bucharest”, Germany’s Sueddeutsche reports, citing an internal note by the EU foreign service on Poroshenko’s meeting with EU commission head...
