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      Conflict in Ukraine is very uncomfortable for Budapest
      Jul24

      Conflict in Ukraine is very uncomfortable for Budapest

      Natural gasdependence of European countries on Russia (Russian gas as a percentage of total pipelineimports)Countries from top to bottom: Finland, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Greece, Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Italy, France, Netherlands, Ireland Even if the European Union is only planning economic sanctions in the third round of...

      Joining EU may be  a false dream
      Jul24

      Joining EU may be a false dream

      Gabi is 26 years old, she was born in the Carpathian Ukraine and she grew up there. Even today she calls the territory a “Mecca of tolerance” with love in her voice, because so many ethnic groups are living there that in the end everybody is a minority. “The current territory of Ukraine belonged to five different countries in...

      Tsar Putin and his Crimea theft
      Jul24

      Tsar Putin and his Crimea theft

      The Földessy couple on the conflict in Ukraine: “Noeconomic sanctions will stop Putin.” The world had learned only now that the conflict had reached this stage what kind of influence Russia had on Ukraine, she says. Moscow had not been prepared for the friendly resistance that was the right way to react, that was why it had answered...

      US gov’t: MH17 ‘likely’ downed by separatists
      Jul23

      US gov’t: MH17 ‘likely’ downed by separatists

      ‘We are confident no Ukrainian air defense systems were within range of the crash’ …read more Source: The Prague...

      Kerry: Russia must act to reduce tensions in Ukraine
      Jul23

      Kerry: Russia must act to reduce tensions in Ukraine

      US secretary of state goes on media offensive over downing of Malaysian airliner in Ukraine …read more Source: The Prague...

      Full text: President Poroshenko’s speech on the crash of MH17
      Jul23

      Full text: President Poroshenko’s speech on the crash of MH17

      Address of the President on the occasion of the crash of Malaysia Airlines aircraft …read more Source: The Prague...

      Gas crisis: 2006, 2009… 2015?
      Jul23

      Gas crisis: 2006, 2009… 2015?

      The experts and politicians currently negotiating throughout Europe are sweating not only due to the high summer temperatures. Their worries about the stability of gas supply for next winter is also making them perspire. For now Moscow is tolerating how some European Union countries are helping out Ukraine since Russia stopped supplying the...

      Calls for Tory MP to stand down as trade envoy over Russian business links
      Jul23

      Calls for Tory MP to stand down as trade envoy over Russian business links

      Cameron’s advisor Charles Hendry heads body promoting Russo-British trade as MPs urger stronger sanctionsOne of David Cameron’s trade envoys and former ministers is facing calls to stand down over for his links to a pro-Russian business group.Charles Hendry, a Tory MP and former energy minister, is listed as president of the...

      Netherlands mourns as bodies of MH17 plane crash victims are flown home
      Jul23

      Netherlands mourns as bodies of MH17 plane crash victims are flown home

      Dutch royals and premier Mark Rutte join relatives at Eindhoven airport to receive 40 coffins arriving from Ukraine disaster siteAs the first coffin was lowered from the planes on the runway, silence fell over Eindhoven military airport. The only sound came from a row of flags whipping in the wind at half mast.Almost a week after Malaysia...

      Dutch mourn as first MH17 bodies arrive in Netherlands
      Jul23

      Dutch mourn as first MH17 bodies arrive in Netherlands

      EINDHOVEN Netherlands (Reuters) – The bodies of the first victims from a Malaysian airliner shot down over Ukraine last week arrived on Wednesday at a military base in the Netherlands – a nation in shock and sorrow. …read more Source:...