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Emmanuel Macron’s foreign policy doctrine(s)
France’s President-elect Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old foreign policy novice, won the keys to the Elysée palace without giving a major address on international affairs. His views, informed by a broad coterie of policy advisers and French grandees, are largely unformed — with one, new exception. To listen to his closest...
5 takeaways from Emmanuel Macron’s win in France
PARIS — Emmanuel Macron, the not-yet-40 former economy minister and banker, carried the French presidential election on Sunday, beating Marine Le Pen by a wider-than-expected margin of 66 to 34. Macron struck a solemn tone, saying he wouldn’t ignore the mixed message from Sunday. Turnout was the lowest for a presidential vote...
Russia suspected in Macron Campaign hacking
The campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron says it has been the target of a “massive hacking attack” after a trove of documents was released online. Macron’s office said that genuine files were mixed up with fake ones in order to confuse people, and that it was clear that hackers wanted to undermine Mr Macron ahead of...
Snow White and the superfluous dwarf: a story from Putin’s Fairy Tale War
It has been said that God is the greatest novelist but with a weakness for irrelevant sub plots and useless minor characters. Maxim Butchenko’s novel The War Artist draws on the work of the almighty by combining “real” people with fictional creations, writes Steve Komarnyckyj. The grisly cast of characters we encounter in the book includes...
Russian ambassador: Kremlin isn’t trying to destabilize the EU
Vladimir Chizhov, Russia’s ambassador to the EU, denied Moscow was trying to destabilize the European Union but said he envisioned a contest of “values” between Russia and the West in the decades ahead. Chizhov, speaking at a press briefing Wednesday, blamed the strained relations between the EU and Russia on the United States and urged...
Debate: A rapprochement between Merkel and Putin?
Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel met on Tuesday in Sochi for the first time in two years. Both stressed the importance of the Minsk Protocol and the OSCE monitoring missions in eastern Ukraine. While some commentators fail to see any signs of rapprochement, others evoke the possibility of a pragmatic solution to the...
13 times Eurovision got super political
It’s been a tense run-up to this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, everyone’s favorite night of glitz, glamour and novelty trampolines. Russia’s proposed act, Julia Samoylova, fell foul of a Ukrainian travel ban because she’d visited occupied Crimea, causing her country to withdraw from the contest, rather...
Kremlin says Trump will meet Putin in July
In a phone call Tuesday afternoon, U.S. President Donald Trump discussed meeting face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Hamburg this July – a detail that was omitted from the White House’s brief readout of the call. The news of the potential meeting on the sidelines of the G20 conference in Hamburg, the...
Is Russia Sponsoring Terrorism In Europe?
Europe is engulfed by a fear of terrorism. Following attacks across the continent that have seen many innocent people killed and maimed, armed soldiers patrolling high profile areas such as government buildings and tourist attractions in our capital cities are now something to which we have become accustomed – writes Gary Cartwright. Fear...
Merkel: EU will lift Russia sanctions when Minsk accords implemented
The European Union will lift sanctions against Russia once all sides in Ukraine commit to the ceasefire agreed in the Minsk accords, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday at a joint press conference with Vladimir Putin, Reuters reported. “For me, the aim is to reach the point in the implementation of the Minsk accords where we can lift the...
