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[Ticker] US says Russia fired artillery into Ukraine
The US Thursday said it has evidence, based on “intelligence information”, that Russia is firing artillery across the border into Ukraine. US deputy State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said Russia intends “to deliver heavier and more powerful multiple rocket launchers” to pro-Russia rebels in eastern Ukraine....
Ukrainian government collapses
Ukraine’s prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, resigned today (24 July) following his failure to push through two pieces of legislation and the decision by two parties to leave the governing coalition. Ukrainian media report that the political parties had been negotiating behind closed doors about the possibility of leaving the government,...
[Ticker] Ukraine PM resigns
Ukraine PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk Thursday announced his resignation after several parties said they were pulling out of the ruling coalition. President Petro Poroshenko welcomed the move saying: “The society wants a full reset of state authorities,” reports Reuters, with a new vote possibly purging the parliament of pro-Russia political...
EU names head of Ukraine mission
The European Union has appointed one of its former special envoys to head its newly established security-sector mission to Ukraine. Kalman Mizsei, who is Hungarian, served as an EU special representative to Moldova in 2007-11 and before that, for five years, as a director for the United Nations Development Programme in Europe and the former...
[Ticker] Former Moldova envoy to lead EU civilian mission to Ukraine
Kalman Mizsei, a Hungarian national who was EU special envoy to Moldova in 2007-2011 and a professor at the Budapest-based Central European University, has been appointed head of mission for the “EU advisory mission for civilian security sector reform” in Ukraine, the EU council said Thursday. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] US ambassador expects clarity on EU sanctions
US ambassador to the EU Anthony Gardner Thursday said “many countries are watching the EU” as its ambassadors discuss economic sanctions against Russia. Washington welcomed an EU decision to progress to financial, energy and defence sanctions if Moscow continues to arm Ukrainian rebels after the downing of a passenger plane....
EU readies new sanctions on defiant Russia
EU ambassadors meeting in Brussels on Thursday are set to discuss a raft of new sanctions on Russia, as Moscow has shown no signs of wanting to meet an EU ultimatum over Ukraine. …read more Source:...
EU-ASEAN members on the MH17 crash
Author(s): KG/EUROPA malaysian_plane_crash.jpg The Ministers at the 20th EU-ASEAN meeting made a joint statement on the tragic downing of Malaysia airlines flight MH17. The Ministers said: “1. At the 20th EU-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in Brussels on 23 July 2014, the Ministers condemned in the strongest terms the downing of Flight MH17 in...
ECB board faced with struggling eurozone
Worse than expected economic figures for the eurozone in the second quarter of 2014 will weigh heavily on the European Central Bank’s governing council when it meets on 7 August. Industrial production in the eurozone fell by 1.1% in May compared with April, according to Eurostat. Notably, Germany experienced one of the largest slowdowns in...
Digital and energy reforms head business wish-list
At the outset of a new legislative cycle, European business lobbies, sector-specific trade associations and individual companies are all setting out their recommendations and demands to the new MEPs and the incoming European Commission. There is an element of formalistic ritual to this process. Some of it is about using the external focus to...
