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Hopes rise for swift resolution on top jobs
Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, is looking for a swift decision on the European Union’s senior appointments from national government leaders when they meet in Brussels on Saturday (30 August). He is increasingly hopeful of establishing a consensus around a balanced ticket of Donald Tusk for president of the...
EU leaders meet on top jobs, Ukraine
EU leaders are meeting in Brussels on Saturday to clinch a deal on two top posts and to discuss further sanctions on Russia over its military intervention in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Claims of Russian invasion in E. Ukraine is misinformation says Russian Ambassador to the EU
Author(s): NEOnline | KT ukraine_pro_russian.jpg “A number of media outlets have recently been spreading Ukrainian claims that “Russian military invasion in Ukraine” was under way and demands of “decisive action of the West”. It is highly regrettable that the new wave of Kiev’s propaganda on the situation in Ukraine is being...
Russia snubs dollar, welcomes rubles, yuan for oil
Author(s): Kostis Geropoulos p13web.jpg Lessening its dependency on the US dollar in an era when the West is imposing sanctions on Moscow in response to the ongoing Ukraine crisis, Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russian gas monopoly Gazprom, said it has agreed to accept rubles and the Chinese yuan for crude oil deliveries. …read more Source:...
Rasmussen: Ukraine free to seek Nato membership
Nato has said Ukraine is free to seek membership in the alliance despite Russian opposition, as EU ministers discuss extra sanctions on Russia. …read more Source:...
Oettinger in Moscow for energy talks
Günther Oettinger, the European commissioner for energy, is in Moscow this morning (29 August) for gas talks with Russia. Oettinger is meeting with Alexander Novak, the Russian energy minister, to try to work out a compromise between Russia and Ukraine on the issue of gas debts. Trilateral gas talks between the EU, Russia and Ukraine have broken...
Russian ‘invasion’ of Ukraine alienates EU friends
Germany, France, and Italy have indicated they are willing to impose extra sanctions on Russia due to its overt “invasion” of Ukraine. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Obama rules out US military intervention in Ukraine
US President Barack Obama has ruled out the possibility of taking military action in Ukraine. “We are not taking military action to solve the Ukrainian problem. What we’re doing is to mobilise the international community to apply pressure on Russia,” he said Thursday in Washington. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] EU leaders warn Putin of further sanctions
The leaders of Germany, the UK and Italy on Thursday separately warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that the EU may impose further sanctions on Russia in response to the incursion of Russian troops into Ukrainian territory, as reported by the Ukrainian authorities and Nato. EU leaders will discuss sanctions Saturday. …read more Source:...
Poroshenko accuses Russia of invasion
Petro Poroshenko, the president of Ukraine, today (28 August) held a dramatic press conference in which he declared that the Russian military has invaded Ukraine. It has been suspected that Russian troops have been in eastern Ukraine for some time. Ukraine captured Russian paratroopers within its borders earlier this week, but Moscow said they...
