Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Robust First-Quarter Growth in Romania
The Socialist-led government, in office since the beginning of the year, has started implementing its popular election programme by further cutting the VAT rate and increasing minimum wages, as well as public sector salaries. This has given a boost to consumption which accelerated real GDP growth in the first quarter of 2017, to an unexpectedly...
Time to Act on Russia Sanctions
On June 15, in a remarkable feat of bipartisan cooperation on a critical national security issue, the U.S. Senate passed tough Russia sanctions legislation by a stunning vote of 98-2. By taking this long overdue action, the Senate recognized clearly what the U.S. intelligence community described six months ago as Russia’s “unprecedented”...
EU Visa-Liberalisation Strengthens Georgia’s Pro-Western Path
On 2 February 2017, the inhabitants of Georgian capital, Tbilisi, saw the city’s two landmarks — the Bridge of Peace and the TV tower lit up in the colours of the EU flag, marking the day when the European Parliament adopted a visa-free regime for Georgia. Starting from 28 March 2017, when the newly adopted regulation came into force,...
Outcome of European Council meeting of 22-23 June 2017
Written by Ralf Drachenberg and Suzana Anghel, Copyright: European Union The main results of the European Council meeting of 22-23 June 2017 include the ‘historic step’ of agreeing to set up ‘permanent structured cooperation’ in European defence, the commitment to implement the Paris Agreement on climate change in all its aspects, and...
Academics Shocked by Stalin Plaque in Moscow
A prominent legal figure has given up his academic position over the installation of a plaque honoring former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
10 Things You Should Not Do in Belarus
In Europe’s “last dictatorship,” you should definitely be careful what you photograph and joke about. From European Radio for Belarus (ERB). …read more Source: Transitions Online...
June 29th, 2017
CHINA Liu Xiaobo Embodied Hope For China’s Democracy. Now He’s Sick. Steven Lee Myers And Austin Ramzy, THE NEW YORK TIMES In the fall of 2008, dozens of activists secretly worked to produce a political manifesto. It was only 3,554 Chinese characters long, but it listed a series of demands on China’s leaders to make the country...
What Do Ukrainians Think about the European Integration?
The opinion poll was commissioned by the IWP and conducted by GfK Ukraine. …read more Source: Institute of World...
EU budget commissioner warns Brexit will put a €10bn-12bn hole in EU budget
EU budget commissioner warns Brexit will put a €10bn-12bn hole in EU budgetUnveiling a Reflection paper on the future of the EU’s finances, EU budget commissioner Günther Oettinger warned that the “gap in the EU finances arising from the United Kingdom’s withdrawal and from the financing needs of new priorities needs to be clearly...
We were warned about Russia – but didn’t listen
Russia tries to tell its neighbours what to do. Then it gets cross with them for objecting to its interference. That, in a nutshell, is the story of European security since 1991. The latest row with Norway exemplifies this. Norway, it is probably worth pointing out, is hardly an example of—to mimic the Kremlin’s propaganda memes—a historic...