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[Ticker] German firm offers reward for MH17 information
German anti-fraud firm Wifka has posted a $30mn reward, put up by an anonymous client, for information on who shot down MH17 in Ukraine. It said it would pay the money into a Swiss account and help “to give the whistleblower a new identity”. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] EU welcomes self-rule for pro-Russia rebels in Ukraine
The EU has welcomed Ukraine’s decision to give self-rule and amnesty to pro-Russia rebels despite criticism it will create a frozen conflict. The EU foreign service said the laws mean Russia must now reciprocate by disarming the separatists and pulling its force out of Ukraine in line with peace accords. …read more Source:...
Parliamentary notebook, 18 September
Keep it in the far-right family Each MEP is entitled to appoint an unlimited number of parliamentary assistants using a monthly budget for their salaries of €21,000. However, in 2009 a rule came into force forbidding MEPs from employing close relatives as their assistants. But Golden Dawn – the Greek delegation of three right-wing MEPs – has...
Will NATO respond with a bang or a whimper?
Collective security depends on a mixture of trust and fear: trust that your allies will make sacrifices for you, and fear that you will suffer if you challenge or break the rules. Both of those are fraying in Europe. It is hard to see how the new European Commission will be able to impose its will on Russia’s South Stream gas pipeline, now...
The EU-Ukraine association agreement: a potted history
Ukraine’s association agreement with the EU, now signed and in the process of ratification, has become highly controversial because of Ukraine’s political crisis in 2013 and Ukraine’s crises with Russia this year. When and how did the association agreement develop? The idea of an association agreement was floated in 2006,...
Feeling the cold from Russia’s gas war
The fear stalking European leaders is that European voters may soon feel the war in Ukraine on their skins. Russia has long tried to depict Ukraine as an unreliable partner for the European Union and, since Russia stopped supplying Ukraine with gas, there are fears that Ukraine might use Russian gas in its stores that is earmarked for the EU....
Gloomy economic outlook as Russia’s trade war takes its toll
Ukraine’s gloomy economic prospects have become darker still in recent weeks. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) now projects that Ukraine’s economy will shrink by 6.5% this year, rather than by 5.0%, its forecast early this summer. Those figures, which bear the heavy imprint of a drop in trade with Russia and a plunge in output in...
Maidan coalition breaks up
Ukraine’s two leading politicians have decided not to combine forces for parliamentary elections in October, leaving questions about the long-term unity of the country’s pro-reform and pro-European alliance. Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk had been exploring the possibility of leading a...
EU-Ukraine: Ratification vs. Implementation
Yesterday the Ukrainian and European parliaments simultaneously ratified the landmark Association Agreement: 355 and 535 votes respectively. A synchronous signing session followed thereafter. As European Parliament rapporteur Jacek Saryusz-Wolski from the EPP said yesterday: “Through this ratification, Ukraine’s European choice will be...
Two deputy directors-general for trade appointed
The college of European commissioners has today (16 September) approved two appointments to the senior ranks of the Commission’s management, both of them in the department for trade. In May of this year, the two positions of deputy director-general for trade fell vacant in quick succession, when João Aguiar Machado was named in February as...
