Edward Snowden: ‘Who will betray him?’
Are Germany's leading political parties capable of sacrificing Edward Snowden, on whose behalf many celebrities are calling for asylum, on the altar of German-US relations? On November 3, Chancellor...
View ArticleNetherlands: ‘Double murder shows the dangers of Mali’
"The assassination of two French journalists highlights just how dangerous the region remains despite French intervention last January," writes Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad, following the November 1...
View ArticleLibya: An EU ‘civilian’ mission to train paramilitaries?
In the wake of a weekend of violence in Tripoli, EUobserver reports on “an internal EU paper – a blueprint for the border mission, Eubam Libya” — which details plans to “build up the ‘operational...
View ArticleEU-Ukraine: Toying with a market of 60 million consumers
Wprost, Warsaw – On November 19, the Ukrainian Parliament again delayed a vote on freeing opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, further jeopardising the signing of an EU association agreement next week....
View ArticleEU-Ukraine: ‘Pause is dangerous!’
Den voices its concern in the wake of a decision by the Ukrainian government to abandon plans to sign an association agreement with the European Union at the Vilnius Eastern partnership summit on...
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Eastern Partnership: ‘Europe loses the battle for the Ukraine’
By its rejection on the same day of all the new government laws that would have allowed imprisoned opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko to be transferred abroad for medical treatment, the Ukrainian...
View ArticleReligion: The pope, such a stranger
Corriere della Sera, Milan – For the first time in 13 centuries, the pope is from a continent other than Europe and from a culture that does not necessarily share the same set of values. In the run-up...
View ArticleIranian Nuclear talks: Lady Ashton’s Geneva triumph
The Guardian, London – The agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme, signed in the early hours of November 24, is the fruit of a behind the scenes diplomatic marathon in which the EU’s High Representative...
View ArticleAmerican eavesdropping: Brussels warns US over European citizens’ data...
The American government has improperly forced US technology companies to hand over European consumers’ data and must stop the practice or be forced to comply with crippling new EU privacy regulations,...
View ArticleEastern Partnership: Europe, not much of a card sharp
NRC Handelsblad, Amsterdam – The Ukraine’s decision not to sign an association agreement with the EU is partly due to the bloc’s inability to speak with a unanimous political voice on the global stage....
View ArticleMoldova: ‘EU gives us a gift before summit’
On the eve of the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius the European Commission has proposed to abolish visa requirements for Moldovan holders of biometric passports. The proposal, which Internal...
View ArticleEastern Partnership: The EU still has a winning hand
Judy Dempsey’s Strategic Europe blog , Brussels – Europeans may have lost the Ukraine for now, but by turning the signature of an association agreement into a diplomatic war, Russia gave the bloc the...
View ArticleEastern Partnership: How Putin miscalculated in the struggle for Ukraine
Financial Times, London – To Moscow the ‘colour revolutions’ were sinister, threatening its sphere of influence. See more.
View ArticleMoldova: ‘Here’s to US-Moldova friendship’
In the wake of the signature of an association agreement between the EU and Moldova, American Secretary of State John Kerry visited the country on December 4 to congratulate the government in Chişinău....
View ArticleEU-Turkey: Brussels to ease visa requirements for Turks
The European Union and Turkey have reached an accord aimed at eliminating visa requirements for Turks within three years. In exchange, Ankara has agreed to house illegal migrants who transit through...
View ArticleUkraine: Klitschko, a fighter coached by Merkel
Der Spiegel, Hamburg – Since the start of the pro-EU protests against the Ukrainian government, former boxer Vitali Klitschko has emerged as one of the main challengers to President Viktor Yanukovytch....
View ArticleUkraine: ‘Kiev makes an indecent proposal to the EU’
“The Ukraine is demanding €20bn in financial aid from the EU” to sign the association agreement with the Union that was rejected by President Viktor Yanukovych at the Vilnius summit on November 28 and...
View ArticleUkraine: ‘EU loses patience’
Following the anti-government protests that have brought 200,000 pro-European demonstrators on to the streets of Kiev on December 15, the European Union has announced that it is suspending talks on the...
View ArticleUkraine: Brussels and Moscow clash over Kiev
A meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his European counterparts on December 16 over the future of the Ukraine became surprisingly heated, reports Delo. While few had expected the...
View ArticleEU-Turkey deal: Visa requirements for Turks lifted in exchange for...
Visas requirements for Turkish citizens coming to the European Union are to be lifted by 2017 according to an agreement signed on December 16 in Ankara by EU Internal Affairs Commissioner Cecilia...
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