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Bulgarian prime minister stands aside
Plamen Oresharski yesterday (23 July) formally resigned as Bulgaria’s prime minister, clearing the way for a caretaker government to lead the country to early parliamentary elections – and bequeathing his successor problems that promise a summer of febrile political activity. Oresharski’s last cabinet meeting had been scheduled...
Russian Defence ministry says Ukraine might have shot down MH17
Author(s): NENewsroom russia_defence_briefing.jpg Claiming that the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 deviated from it’s assigned air corridor and that a Ukrainian Sukhoi SU-25 military aircraft was sighted by radar close to the airliner around the time of the crash, the Russian Defence ministry attempts to point to the Ukrainian government as...
EU steps up efforts to help Ukraine
The European Union has stepped up its efforts to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine, with EU foreign ministers warning Russia that it faces economic sanctions unless it does more to stop pro-Russian rebels and unless it co-operates fully with an international investigation into the shooting down last week of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine. A...
A decision deferred on the EU’s high representative
The European Union will stumble through the summer without decisions on who will be its next foreign-policy chief and who will take other top posts, after the special European Council convened on 16 July to make these appointments broke down without agreement. The 28 prime ministers and presidents from the member states instead focused on the...
EU strikes second regional trade deal in Africa
The European Union has made a significant breakthrough in its economic relationship with Africa by concluding two regional trade deals encompassing 22 countries, including Nigeria and South Africa, the continent’s largest economies. The deals were each signed within a week of each other, after ten years of negotiations. Together they...
TTIP tries to weather the mid-way squalls
Negotiators from the European Commission and the United States on Friday (18 July) completed another gruelling round of negotiations on the transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP), the sixth so far. Inside the European Commission’s meeting rooms and in a spillover facility, a specially hired conference hall near Châtelain, the...
Federica Mogherini – Italy’s scapegoat
Even for a politician who has built a career around delivering grace under pressure, the intensity of the campaign against Federica Mogherini mounted over the past few weeks will have been unsettling. The youngest foreign minister in Italy’s republican history has been attacked for her politics (too left-wing), her views on Ukraine (too...
Belarus: island of stability?
Sunday, 20 July, marked the twentieth anniversary of Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s presidency of Belarus – a European record for longevity in leadership with which, until last year, only Luxembourg’s Jean-Claude Juncker could compete. So what has life been like under the man usually described as ‘Europe’s last...
More Russia sanctions: no EU concrete decision
Author(s): Dan Alexe warship_russia_france.jpg No immediate sanctions on Russia and no core sanctions against the inner circle of the Kremlin: the meeting of the EU’s foreign ministers on sanctions against Russia, chaired by the High Representative Catherine Ashton, took on Tuesday longer than announced, as an agreement proved hard to find,...
"They sow the wind and harvest the whirlwind”*
Author(s): New Europe ukraine_plane.jpg The situation around the downed Malaysian airliner becomes somehow more clear and responsibilities should be attributed to irresponsible locals encouraged by alcohol and emotions, rather to any of the major powers involved. The incident gave the opportunity for a propaganda “war” for few days...
