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Apr 13, 2010

Ukraine’s Energy Reform Opportunity

By Alexandros Petersen

The 2010 Ukrainian elections have been consigned to history books.  The election season and the winter passed without a major Ukrainian natural gas crisis, and a major gas cutoff, such as occurred in 2009, was avoided

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Apr 13, 2010

French and German Ties Fray Over Greek Crisis

By the New York Times

From the New York Times:  “There has been a tectonic shift in the way Germany acts in Europe,” said Ulrike Guérot, a senior research fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations. Germans, she says, are “talking of behaving ‘normally’ now, like the others, and that means nationally. …” “Germany is no longer, as a matter […]

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Apr 12, 2010

Merkel’s Greek Dilemma

By Edward Hugh

Angela Merkel is a Chemist. In her doctoral thesis, she demonstrated herself to be a thoroughgoing expert when it comes to analysing the speed of disintegration of chemical compounds once the bonds which hold them together are weakened. Unfortunately she is now having to apply all this acquired expertise and know-how in a determined attempt […]

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Apr 9, 2010

Rasmussen: NATO’s Problems and Promise

By NATO

From NATO: Diplomats, defense ministries and development experts sit together, plan together and operate together, including in Provincial Reconstruction Teams all over Afghanistan. But at the international level, this lesson has simply not yet been learnt. Let me illustrate it by a concrete example. The European Union does both development and police training in Afghanistan. […]

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Apr 8, 2010

Yanukovich Kills Ukraine’s Bid to Join NATO

By the Christian Science Monitor

From the Christian Science Monitor:  Ukraine’s once deeply controversial bid to join NATO appears to have died a little-noticed bureaucratic death this week, as incoming President Viktor Yanukovich moved to abolish a commission that had been overseeing the country’s preparations for eventual entry into the Western military alliance. Monday’s presidential decree scrapping the commission came […]

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Apr 7, 2010

Merkel Only EU Leader Announced to Have Bilateral Meeting with Obama

By Laura Rozen, Politico

From Laura Rozen, Politico: Next week, some 47 world leaders descend on Washington for the Nuclear Security Summit. So who gets a bilateral meeting with host Barack Obama? So far, nine world leaders. Obama currently plans to meet one-on-one with President Sargsian of Armenia; President Hu Jintao of China; Chancellor Merkel of Germany; Prime Minister […]

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Apr 2, 2010

The End of Europe’s First Cold War Defense Alliance

By AFP

From AFP:  The Cold War-era Western European Union defence alliance, set up in the wake of World War II, has been dissolved, the organisation’s presidency said in a statement Wednesday. The WEU was formed by Belgium, Britain, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands in 1948 and expanded to include Germany, Italy, Spain and others, but its […]

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Mar 31, 2010

Swedish Diplomat Accused of Spying for Russia

By the Swedish Wire

From the Swedish Wire:  A Swedish diplomat leaked classified and sensitive political information about the EU to Russia, a Swedish newspaper reported Wednesday, quoting a defected Russian foreign intelligence officer. "He gave us large amounts of information and documents, especially about how former Soviet states were trying to approach the EU and NATO," Sergei Tretyakov […]

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Mar 31, 2010

Belarus Press Crackdown Puts Westernization on Hold

By Matthew Czekaj

In a bid to ensure its dubious status as “Europe’s last dictatorship,” Belarus has further constrained the rights of its independent journalists. 

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Mar 30, 2010

Turkey Faults France and Germany on Arms Sales to Greece

By the New York Times

From the New York Times: Just as the German chancellor arrived in Ankara on Monday for bilateral talks, fraught with differences over education and accession to the European Union, a fresh rift seemed to have emerged over policies toward Greece, Turkey’s regional rival. Egemen Bagis, Turkey’s chief negotiator with the European Union, has criticized Germany, […]

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