Section: VoxEeurop (EU)
Belarus: Ukraine crisis brings Lukashenko into the game
“If one country has benefitted from the Ukraine crisis, it’s Belarus,” writes Nezavissimaïa Gazeta, noting Minsk has recently brushed off its international pariah status and that the peers of President Alexander Lukashenko no longer treat him as the leader no one wants to be seen with. But if Belarus’s role in the negotiations to...
EU-Ukraine: ‘Brussels and Kiev ratify association agreement’
On 16 September the European and Ukrainian Parliaments simultaneously ratified on a large majority the EU-Ukraine association agreement, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The agreement’s economic part will come into force in 2016, specifies the German daily, according to which before then — the parties will have to find a solution to...
European Security: ‘Assuring the Balts’
Speaking in Tallinn, Estonia, on 3 September, on the way to the Nato summit in Wales, United States president Barack Obama assured the Baltic States they are safe under the military pact’s umbrella, Gazeta Wyborcza reports. President Obama stressed that — we will defend our Nato allies, and that means every ally. In this alliance, there are...
