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[Ticker] US paratroopers to arrive in Ukraine for training exercises
Around 200 US paratroopers are set to take part in an annual international military training exercises in western Ukraine, reports AP. The troops are set to arrive next week and will include around 1,000 military personnel from 15 countries. …read more Source:...
Russian Ambassador to the EU speaks to New Europe
Author(s): New Europe Russian Ambassador to the EU, Vladimir Chizhov’s interview LIVE New Europe: Well, Ambassador, it seems that you can take Kiev in two weeks? It’s been said in a conversation between President Putin and President of the Commission Jose Manuel Barroso. Vladimir Chizhov: Were you there, listening, eavesdropping? NE:...
The EU’s grand coalition asserts itself
The national leaders of the European Union’s member states agreed last Saturday (30 August) that Donald Tusk should chair their future summits as president of the European Council and that Federica Mogherini should become the Union’s foreign-policy chief. The twin appointment emerged only after two special summits, at the end of July...
Leaders promise to get tough with Russia
Herman Van Rompuy had called the special European Council so that the EU’s national leaders could belatedly agree on who should fill the Union’s remaining top jobs (including his own). But as often happens at EU summits, other issues made their way onto the agenda. Discussion took account of the dramatic developments in Ukraine, where...
EU to add to sanctions on Russia
The European Union is poised to tighten sanctions against Russia tomorrow (5 September) in response to an escalation of the crisis in Ukraine, which is already the most serious armed conflict in Europe since NATO’s bombing of Serbia in 1999. After a week of intensive discussions, prompted by more brazen Russian troop movements into eastern...
[Ticker] France suspends warship delivery to Russia
French President Francois Hollande has suspended the delivery of a French warship to Russia saying the conditions are “not right” and citing the “grave” situation in Ukraine, reports AFP. The mistral was supposed to be delivered in October but Paris has come under international pressure to halt the deal. …read more...
Ceasefire plan for Ukraine eases Russia sanctions risk
Author(s): Kostis Geropoulos putin_web.jpg After conflicting reports on a possible ceasefire deal for Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on September 3 that he and his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko have agreed to the outlines of a plan to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: New...
EU agriculture ministers to hold emergency meeting
Agriculture ministers will hold an emergency meeting in Brussels on Friday (5 September) to take stock of the effect of the Russian ban on EU food imports on the EU agricultural sector. Dacian Cioloş, the European commissioner for agriculture, outlined the impact of the ban on EU agriculture at the meeting of European commissioners today (10...
Ukraine crisi: Poroshenko and Putin agree "permanent truce”
Author(s): Dan Alexe 51549822.jpg Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s office says Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed today on a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine. In a statement on Poroshenko’s website, his press service said the agreement was reached during a telephone conversation with Putin said that...
Ukraine: ‘permanent ceasefire’ agreed with Russia
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has announced that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has agreed to a “permanent ceasefire” in eastern Ukraine, the site of six months of intensifying fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists aided, allegedly, by Russian servicemen. The three-sentence announcement, made shortly...
