Section: The United Kingdom
G7 summit statement issued on trade, Iran, Libya, Ukraine and Hong Kong
France on Monday issued a short statement at the end of a meeting of G7 leaders on several issues, but it was not a communique along the lines of those usually drawn up at the annual summit, reflecting divisions. …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s workers abroad fuel property boom back home
European labour shortages lure young people in search of higher wages …read more Source: Financial...
Ukraine is ready to seize its chance to reform
World Bank president argues that new leadership must revamp agriculture and finance …read more Source: Financial...
White House tries to walk back Trump’s call for Russia to rejoin the G7
The White House on Thursday attempted to scale back Donald Trump’s claims that he wants Russia back in the G7 after European leaders said Vladimir Putin is not welcome until he relinquished the Crimean Peninsula. …read more Source: Daily...
Ukraine, EU oppose Trump’s suggestion of readmitting Russia to G7
Ukraine’s president backed leading European powers on Thursday in opposing the readmission of Russia to the Group of Seven advanced economies, saying Moscow still occupied Crimea and was frustrating peace in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Putin and the Patriarchs
Last October, the Ukrainian church broke away from Russia — and triggered the greatest schism in Orthodoxy for centuries …read more Source: Financial...
UK’s Johnson says case yet to be made for Russia to rejoin G7
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday he did not believe the case had yet been made for Russia to rejoin the G7 following its “provocations” in places like Salisbury, Ukraine and elsewhere. …read more Source:...
From Facebook to Vote Leave: how we entered into a war against reality
How information is weaponised in our divided age. In 2001, a year out of university, Peter Pomerantsev moved to Moscow. Working as a TV producer, he saw first-hand how public opinion was exposed to a “fog of disinformation”, how “spectacle had pushed out sense”. After returning to the UK in 2010, Pomerantsev wrote a series of articles, and then a...
Jack Straw’s The English Job is timely, revealing account of his time in Iran
The former foreign secretary seeks to explain Iran’s deep suspicion of Britain. “The job is always an English job” goes the Iranian phrase that Jack Straw has borrowed for the title of his new book. It reflects, he says, the widespread Iranian suspicion that “we are some unseen, all-pervasive influence on life and events in Iran”. You...
France wants progress in Ukraine before Russia returns to G7
Russia’s readmission to the group of seven nations depends on progress in peace talks over Ukraine, a French diplomatic source said, responding to comments by U.S. President Donald Trump that Moscow should be restored to the group. …read more Source:...
