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Russia looms over Trump’s meetings with European leaders
When German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited President Donald Trump at the White House in March, she brought a visual aid to help Trump understand the menace posed by his would-be friend, Russian President Vladimir Putin. Merkel brought out a 1980s map of the former Soviet Union and noted the way its borders stretched for hundreds of miles to the...
EU Defence Union: The end of soft power?
Brexit, Trump, but also Macron’s victory have given fresh impetus to EU defence cooperation. Concrete initiatives were launched last week. After years of languishing in the long grass, the process of European defence cooperation has recently been kicked into top gear. Brexit, Donald Trump repeatedly calling into question US commitment to...
NATO cheers Trump’s military budget
Analysts of U.S. President Donald Trump’s initial budget plan are slamming it as built on fuzzy math. But if Trump’s numbers are fuzzy, his proposal on military spending has NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg feeling all warm and cuddly toward the White House. Trump’s fiscal blueprint, released in Washington just as...
Tedros overcomes attacks on record to win WHO race
GENEVA — Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus overcame late attacks on his record in Ethiopia to become Africa’s first director general of the World Health Organization. A charismatic former health minister and diplomat, Tedros, 52, pointed to his track record of developing a vast network of health centers in his country and...
Ukrainian MPs back law limiting Russian language on TV
The Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday backed a law that requires major TV channels to broadcast three-quarters of their programs in Ukrainian, AFP reported. “Once again, the Verkhovna Rada [parliament] has demonstrated that it is a Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, one eliminating the remnants of the Soviet imperialist past,” Andriy Parubiy, the speaker of...
Indictment tells murky Montenegrin coup tale
PODGORICA, Montenegro — It has the plot of a thriller, even if it doesn’t read like one. In long, tangled sentences, an indictment filed by the chief prosecutor in Montenegro lays out a story of Russian agents recruiting mercenaries to storm parliament on election day and stop the small Balkan state from joining NATO....
EU wary over Ukrainian weapons in South Sudan
Ukraine, which had signed an EU arms embargo on South Sudan, has since sold attack helicopters used by the government forces in Juba against civilians and hospitals. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] France to host Russian president
French president Emmanuel Macron will host his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for a round of talks on 29 May at the Versailles palace outside of Paris. The two are set to discuss Syria and Ukraine, among other issues. The scheduled meeting follows reports of Russian attempts to obstruct the French presidential election against Macron, in...
Why Poland doesn’t want refugees
WARSAW — The right-wing Polish government is under fierce pressure from the EU to finally begin accepting asylum seekers. But it’s the country’s leading opposition party that’s paying the political price. Poland, along with Hungary, has flatly refused to take in any refugees under a 2015 deal that...
Russia meeting revelation could trigger obstruction investigation
The new special counsel investigation into possible collusion between associates of President Donald Trump and Russia is just getting started — and it could take years to resolve. But Trump’s Oval Office boast to Russian officials May 10 about why he fired FBI Director James Comey will almost certainly trigger a more...
