Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Ukraine: An Oligarch Brought to Heel
March 26, 2015 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Kyrgyzstan Courts EU, Russia; Human Traffickers Busted
Plus, a jailed Azerbaijani journalist sees her family, and a Chechen lawmaker threatens to send big guns to Mexico. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Ukraine’s Powerful Billionaire Governor Quits After Clash With Kyiv
Dnipropetrovsk’s Kolomoyskyi: Patriotic, Corrupt, Threatening—Or All Three? Ukrainian billionaire politician Ihor Kolomoyskyi resigned today as governor of Ukraine’s strategically critical Dnipropetrovsk province after clashing with the central government and parliament over control of two state-owned oil-sector companies. In that...
Senior US Official: Corruption Ukraine’s ‘Second War’
The United States is closely watching signs of possible major anti-corruption moves in Ukraine i… …read more Source: American Security Council...
The Fed’s dollar question
A key question for the Federal Reserve in the months ahead will be the U.S. dollar’s future direction. That question will have a crucial bearing on the appropriate timing of the start of the Fed’s interest rate hiking cycle. If it is thought that the dollar’s recent strengthening is likely to be reversed, the Fed would be...
2 April, 16.00 CET: webinar on Political Economy of Ukraine
On 2 April, 16.00 CET, CASE will broadcast a first webinar on the up-to-date topics relating to CEE countries: http://emerging-europe.com/webinars/webinar-4-2/ The webinar will be dedicated to the Political Economy of Ukraine. Their input to the webinar will give: Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics,...
The EU’s Dangerous Indulgence of Moldova
By countenancing a bunch of venal pols, as long as they’re pro-EU, Brussels erodes its own support among Moldovans. From openDemocracy. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
The EU Eastern Partnership Needs More Attention to Security
On March 6-7, 2015, the EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs reached the conclusion that the EU Eastern Partnership (EaP) requires transformation and further development. The current situation in the EaP Region, frozen conflicts, and aggression against Ukraine demands more attention to the security dimension of the EU initiative and it is very...
Eurozone officials dash Greek hopes of securing €1.2bn from bailout fund
Eurozone officials dash Greek hopes of securing €1.2bn from bailout fundOfficials in the Eurogroup Working Group (EWG) agreed in a teleconference yesterday that Greece has no right to tap €1.2bn from the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), one of the Eurozone’s bailout funds. The Greek government claimed that it had overpaid the...
The Euro Area is continuing its cautious recovery – Finland’s GDP will finally return to growth
The euro area is continuing its cautious recovery, the US economy is undergoing a strong upswing, China’s growth is subsiding. Finland’s GDP will grow 0.5 per cent in 2015 and 1.6 per cent in 2016. The volume of exports will increase by one per cent in 2015; growth is expected to be approximately 3.5 per cent in 2016. Private...
