Section: EurActiv.com (EU)
Ukrainian diplomat: EU Association Agreement ‘major opportunity’ for agri-trade
The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement is a “challenge” for Kiev but also a “great opportunity” for the longer-term competitiveness of the agriculture sector, a Ukrainian diplomat told EurActiv.com. …read more Source:...
Dutch PM says he’s ‘totally against referendums’
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte today (13 June) admitted a referendum called by eurosceptic groups on whether to back closer ties between Ukraine and the EU had been “disastrous” after voters soundly rejected the pact. …read more Source:...
Outgoing Bulgarian President warns Russia trying to ‘destroy’ EU
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev yesterday (8 June) warned that Russia was out to “destroy” the European Union as the Ukraine crisis ushered in an era of “Cold Peace”. …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s Naftogaz will try to deal with Gazprom without EU mediation
Ukrainian gas company Naftogaz issued a statement on Wednesday (8 June) indicating that it will consider purchasing gas from Gazprom, if the price is competitive, via direct contacts between the two companies. …read more Source:...
Ukraine says detained Frenchman planned attacks on Euro 2016
Ukraine’s state security service said yesterday (6 June) a French citizen detained in late May on the border with Poland had been planning attacks in France to coincide with the Euro 2016 soccer championship it is hosting. …read more Source:...
With the UK referendum, Germany realises the limits of its power
Having played cat and mouse with Greece over its debt crisis, the good cop and bad cop over Ukraine’s crisis, and having ignited and then steered the refugee crisis, Berlin realises it has no control on the other big geopolitical risk on its doorstep: the Brexit referendum. …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s corrupt judges targeted in constitutional reforms
Ukraine’s parliament approved yesterday (2 June) judicial reforms that Western backers say are needed to fight corruption, in the first constitutional vote the ruling coalition has pushed through since an overhaul of the government in April. …read more Source:...
Pro-Russian rebels accuse Ukraine of fresh offensive
Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine yesterday (1 June) accused government soldiers of launching a new offensive near a prized but obliterated airport in the separatists’ de facto capital of Donetsk. …read more Source:...
Member states use Brexit referendum to delay visa waivers
European Union states held off agreeing to ease travel rules for Georgia yesterday (1 June). Turkey, Ukraine and Kosovo should also expect more delays in visa liberalisation, as the bloc turns more cautious amid immigration fears, EU delegation sources said. …read more Source:...
EU to label Russia a ‘strategic challenge’
Until the illegal annexation of Crimea, the European Union had labelled Russia its “strategic partner”. But in the new EU Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy, which is expected to be unveiled at the end of June, the bloc will label Russia its “strategic challenge”, a diplomat said yesterday (30 May). …read more...
