Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Labour manifesto pledges reform of EU budget, CAP and immigration rules
Labour manifesto pledges reform of EU budget, CAP and immigration rulesThe Labour Party unveiled their general election manifesto yesterday pledging to argue for a range of EU reforms including “tougher budget discipline,” reforming the Common Agricultural Policy and changing the rules around EU migrants’ access to benefits. The manifesto...
Trouble on Europe’s Periphery
27MayMembersTrouble on Europe’s Periphery27 May 2015 – 18:00 to 19:00Chatham House, London ParticipantsDr Tracey German, Lecturer, Department of Defence Studies, King’s College LondonSten Rynning, Professor of International Relations, University of Southern DenmarkBill Park, Senior Lecturer, Department of Defence Studies,...
Ukrainian Energy Reforms and European Gas Supply
The CSIS Energy and National Security Program is pleased to host Alan Riley, Professor of Law at the City Law School with City University in London, to discuss the status of reforms to the Ukrainian energy sector and to provide an update on the European Union’s antitrust case against Gazprom. read more …read more Source: Center for...
‘National-Cultural’ Enclaves: Moscow’s New Game in Ukrainian-Moldovan Borderland
Russia demands a “special status” for certain territories in Ukraine and Moldova as a device to promote territorial secession processes. Moscow encourages local Russophile groups to claim a “special territorial status” or orchestrates such demands on their behalf, instigating state fragmentation. The first case study is that of Russia’s...
Steppe Eagle- 2015 Exercise Unites CSTO and NATO forces in Kazakhstan
On April 6, the military exercise Steppe Eagle–2015 officially began with an opening ceremony at Kazakhstan’s Ilisky Training Area. Kazakhstan’s Airmobile Forces commander General-Major Daulet Ospanov remarked, “The experience gained by our soldiers is very valuable.” While the United States’ defense attaché to Kazakhstan,...
Russia and Yemen’s Agony
Russia’s position on the fighting in Yemen needs to be understood in terms of its overall approach to the Middle East. And Moscow’s approach to the region has become more confident and strident, as Washington’s has become ever more confused and disjointed. Vitaly Naumkin, a leading Russian analyst, observes that Russia seeks to...
New Ukraine Disrupts Old Ukraine
There’s good reason for guarded optimism in the new Ukraine. President Petro Poroshenko and the parliament brought the country’s most powerful oligarch to heel in March 2015 and the justice department has set its sights on the richest oligarchs. …read more Source: Atlantic...
Overcoming the Ukraine Crisis
The crisis in Ukraine is one of the gravest threats to global order in the past quarter-century, potentially involving nuclear-armed powers whose collective military spending amounts to two-thirds of the global total. The West should take the lead with a plan of action to avoid being trapped by a sudden escalation of the conflict. …read...
Mapping out vulnerable sectors in the Eastern Partnership countries – macroeconomic worshop
On April 16th, CASE – Center for Social and Economic Research, and HAS Institute of World Economics (IWE – Hungary) invites to the international macroeconomic workshop: Mapping out vulnerable sectors in the Eastern Partnership countries. The workshop marks the opening of the project “Mapping out vulnerable sectors in the Eastern Partnership...
Moldovan Anti-Fascists in the Dock
Critics on the left say the Western-leaning government is suppressing fundamental freedoms in a campaign against an illusory Ukraine-inspired insurrection. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
