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Frozen and forgotten: The neglected displacement crisis on Europe’s doorstep
Many of the world’s humanitarian catastrophes are described as forgotten emergencies, but only this one is playing out relatively unnoticed on the doorstep of Europe, over an area roughly the size of Switzerland. The frozen, low-intensity conflict in Ukraine’s Donbass region will mark a grim, four-year milestone in April. And the...
Prosecutor’s Office brings charges in connection with Hera ship sinking
Fourteen years after the sinking of the Bulgarian ship Hera, the Sofia Prosecutor’s Office has brought charges against two persons – Milen Balchev, Director of Providence Shipping & Trading OOD, and Stefcho Minchev, Technical Director of the company. The two are facing charges for the damage and sinking of the motor ship which resulted...
Prosecutor’s Office brings charges in connection with Hera ship sinking
Fourteen years after the sinking of the Bulgarian ship Hera, the Sofia Prosecutor’s Office has brought charges against two persons – Milen Balchev, Director of Providence Shipping & Trading OOD, and Stefcho Minchev, Technical Director of the company. The two are facing charges for the damage and sinking of the motor ship which resulted...
Bulgarians from Ukraine happy with choice of Bulgarian university
The Danube town of Svishtov hosted a meeting of ethnic Bulgarians from Bessarabia, Ukraine – currently students from different courses at the Academy of Economics in that town – with Deputy Rector Assoc. Prof. Nikolay Ninov. Assoc. Prof. Ninov recalled that the faculty was seeking for opportunities to attract students from the Bulgarian diaspora....
Russia casts shadow over EU’s eastern summit
There wasn’t one mention of Russia in the official declaration approved on Friday by EU leaders and the six former Soviet republics that form the so-called Eastern Partnership. But the shadow cast by the Kremlin over the summit was impossible to ignore, as was the EU’s uncertainty over what to do about it. German Chancellor Angela...
Russia casts shadow over EU’s eastern summit
There wasn’t one mention of Russia in the official declaration approved on Friday by EU leaders and the six former Soviet republics that form the so-called Eastern Partnership. But the shadow cast by the Kremlin over the summit was impossible to ignore, as was the EU’s uncertainty over what to do about it. German Chancellor Angela...
Leader of rebel-held Ukraine region resigns amid infighting
Igor Plotnitsky, the head of Ukraine’s rebel Luhansk region, has resigned after accusing a rival of an attempted coup. With tensions simmering in the region, is the conflict in eastern Ukraine about to escalate? …read more Source: Deutsche...
Brussels hosts EU Eastern Partnership summit today
Leaders from the EU member states and the six Eastern Partner countries have convened in Brussels today for the fifth Eastern Partnership summit The event aims to deepen ties between the EU and Georgia Ukraine Moldova Armenia Azerbaijan and Belarus …read more Source:...
How the EU broke Ukraine (with help from Russia)
Four years after the EU’s push for closer ties with Ukraine provoked Russia and helped start a revolution, the country is ravaged by war and nearly broke. So as EU leaders gather in Brussels Friday to celebrate the Eastern Partnership, their foreign policy initiative to strengthen relations with countries in the former Soviet bloc, the...
In the East, the EU is leaving its partners behind
Ask any of the EU’s six “Eastern Partners” what the Eastern Partnership policy means to them, and you’re likely to get several answers. Ask the EU, and you’ll get something else entirely. In response to these differences — which will once again be on display as leaders gather in Brussels for the fifth Eastern Partnership summit...
