Section: VoxEeurop (EU)
Crisis in Ukraine: ‘Nato will have a spearhead’
In an attempt to bolster the security of its Eastern flank in Europe, Nato plans to develop its rapid response forces, the pact’s chief Anders Foghs Rasmussen said in an interview given to six major European newspapers, headlines Gazeta Wyborcza. The plan will require that Nato pre-positions basic equipment and supplies in host nations....
Crisis in Ukraine: ‘Meeting with “Putin’s reality”’
On 26 August Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko met his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in the Belarussian capital of Minsk, during an EU-Ukraine-Eurasian Union summit, reports Den. After the meeting, the first direct talks on the crisis in his country, Poroshenko said that “a roadmap will be prepared in order to achieve, as soon as...
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...
