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Rex Tillerson urges Russia to cooperate on Syria ahead of Trump-Putin meeting
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday called on Russia to do more to bring peace to Syria and suggested Moscow and Washington could cooperate on establishing no-fly zones in the war-torn Arab country. In the unusual statement, Tillerson also insisted America’s top priority in Syria remains defeating the Islamic State...
Triple threat to Merkel’s G20 bump: Putin, Erdoğan, Trump
BERLIN — For Angela Merkel, meetings like the G20 summit in Hamburg are usually an opportunity to shine. This one comes with a strong dose of trouble. The longtime German leader is known as the “summit chancellor” — Gipfelkanzlerin — for her ability to turn powwows with world leaders into bumps in the...
Donald Trump wants a do-over in Europe
U.S. President Donald Trump is hoping Europe will give him a second chance. This week, he heads to Poland at the invitation of its president and to participate in a regional infrastructure summit and to Hamburg, Germany, for the G20 summit. The trip offers the chance for redemption after a catastrophic visit to Brussels in June that left the NATO...
Europeans can’t think of building a future without the Americans
President Donald Trump isn’t the leader of the free world, says French Ambassador Gérard Araud. These days, he says, no one is. And as Trump heads to Europe Wednesday for his first G-20 meeting as president and first face-to-face encounter with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the world needs to figure out what to do next....
Push to crack down on rogue European Parliament missions
Secretive meetings held by European lawmakers in dangerous or divisive locations could be a thing of the past, if senior parliamentarians get their way. Many members of the European Parliament head off on unofficial visits to places that are politically sensitive — such as Ukraine and Syria — and there are worries...
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[Focus] Estonia wants e-residents to pump money into its economy
Estonia’s e-residency programme is attracting attention from Ukraine and Russia, and provides an option for British businesses who want to remain active in the EU post-Brexit. …read more Source:...
Is all the Russia talk helping Putin?
Not since the end of the Cold War has the political climate in the United States been so focused on Russia. Suspicions that the president tried to shut down investigations into his campaign’s ties to Moscow imperil his political future. Russia and the United States are moving toward a confrontation of sorts over Syrian airspace....
France’s liberal strongman
PARIS — In this era of illiberal authoritarianism, Emmanuel Macron is trademarking a paradoxical brand: the liberal strongman. The young, centrist French president, flush with electoral successes that have wiped out the old political class and given him an absolute majority in parliament, is taking full advantage of the Fifth...
Donald Trump gets lift from media wounds
The scandal that has yet to find a name sailed into the doldrums early this week. The lack of new news about Russia interference in the election and the financial gymnastics of Trump’s advisers was remarkable after weeks of subpoenas, contentious firings, damaging congressional hearings and various Washington Post and New York Times...
Russia Suspends Payments To Council Of Europe
Russia’s descent into total isolation took a major step this week with the announcement by foreign minister Sergei Lavrov that the Kremlin would suspend its payments to the Council of Europe (CoE). In a phone call to CoE Secretary-General Thorbjorn Jagland, warned that the payments would not resume until the “unconditional total...
