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Outside View: Old, new Europe clash Washington (UPI) Mar 31, 2008 
President Bush's two-day visit to Kiev on the eve of NATO's April 2-4 summit in Bucharest, Romania, is his first visit to Ukraine and therefore long overdue. His predecessor, Bill Clinton, visited Ukraine on three occasions. Bush's visit to Ukraine ahead of the NATO summit is seen as a strong show of U.S. support for NATO enlargement to Ukraine and Georgia.
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Merkel against NATO membership for Georgia, Ukraine
Berlin (AFP) March 10, 2008German Chancellor Angela Merkel signalled on Monday that she opposes granting NATO membership to former Soviet republics Ukraine and Georgia. "A country should become a NATO member not only when its temporary political leadership is in favour but when a significant percentage of the population supports membership," Merkel said in Berlin in reference to Ukraine and Georgia. ... more US cautious about Ukraine, Georgia NATO aspirations 
Brussels (AFP) March 5, 2008US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed caution Wednesday on the hopes of Georgia and Ukraine moving closer towards membership of NATO, ahead of alliance talks on their aspiration. Speaking to reporters travelling with her to Brussels, Rice underlined that NATO "is a consensus organisation", and that its 26 member nations must decide unanimously when it comes to admitting new partner ... more Russian minister says US blocking Russia-NATO accord: agencies 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 8, 2007Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States on Saturday of blocking a cooperation programme between Moscow and the NATO alliance in a row over a European arms treaty, Russian news agencies reported. "The fact that an important document that simply set out a large number of spheres of agreement... has been blocked due to the absolutely ideological position of our American ... more Main points of new EU reform treaty
Brussels (AFP) Oct 17, 2007EU heads of state and government meet in Lisbon on Thursday and Friday seeking to endorse a wide-ranging reform treaty for the bloc. The draft text runs to over 250 pages. Here are some of the main aspects of the treaty which Brussels hopes will enter into force in 2009 after being ratified by all 27 member states. A treaty not a constitution An attempt to give the European Union its fi ... more NATO Weighs Response To Russian Arms Treaty Freeze
Brussels (AFP) Jul 17, 2007NATO is weighing its response to a "tough" Russian announcement that it will suspend a key Soviet-era arms treaty in December, a NATO diplomat said Monday. "Moscow has sent a quite tough memorandum ... on the reasons that led it to suspend the treaty and which sets the date from which it will apply as December 12," the diplomat said, on condition of anonymity. "The 26 NATO members are cons ... more |
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Prague (UPI) March 26, 2007The European Union celebrated its 50th birthday over the weekend with a summit party in Berlin that began in secrecy, proceeded into rancor and ended in a grand and characteristically banal compromise. At issue was the Berlin Declaration, a statement of EU principles and objectives that was supposed to answer the burning question, what does Europe do now? The Germans kept the text secret u ... more German Military Lacks Money 
Berlin (UPI) March 20, 2007Germany's military is increasingly active in international peacekeeping missions, yet the country's military ombudsman in a report presented Tuesday said German soldiers were underpaid and had to endure run-down barracks. Reinhold Robbe, the ombudsman in parliament for the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces, said Tuesday in Berlin at the presentation of his yearly report that German milit ... more Europe Vs. Globe 
Washington (UPI) Feb 05, 2007Opinion polls throughout Europe report that the biggest issues on the mind of the European public are the economy, jobs, immigration and Islam. But the dominant issue on the political agenda of the European Union is whether and how to revive the ill-fated draft constitution, which was assumed to be dead after the 'No' votes in a referendum in France and another in Holland in 2005. There is ... more France As The Problem Child Of European Union 
Paris (UPI) Jan 03, 2007In Europe at the start of this New Year, all eyes are turning to the east, where three intriguing dramas are under way. Ready or not, Romania and Bulgaria have joined the European Union, and are thus safely within the gated community. Belarus is paying the price for being outside, bullied by increasingly assertive Russia into paying more for its energy supplies, and having to "sell" Gazprom half ... more Europe In 2006
Berlin (UPI) Dec 28, 2006 Europe in 2006 has become increasingly engaged in security conflicts in the Middle East, a trend that looks to continue next year in light of ever-sinking U.S. standing in the region because of failure to stabilize Iraq.
Before the Middle East could take hold of London, Paris and Berlin, however, energy security was the topic of the moment in the first weeks of 2006, when a gas price row bet ... more |
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Berlin (UPI) Oct 26, 2006For the first time in 12 years, Germany has updated the strategy for its armed forces and security policy in a White Book that critics say lacks clear statements as to where Germany's security interests begin and end. "The White Book does not specify when Germany could and maybe should deny participation in an international mission," Wilfried Stolze, spokesman of the Bundeswehrverband, a s ... more EU Leaders Back Plans For European Technology Institute 
Lahti (AFP) Finland, Oct 20, 2006EU leaders meeting in Finland on Friday threw their weight behind plans to set up an elite research network, which aims to be Europe's answer to the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "This is indeed a future flagship for innovation in Europe based on the important idea of public-private partnership, specifically the linkage between universities and business interests," European ... more Germans Are Poorer Than Ever 
Berlin (UPI) Oct 17, 2006German politicians are debating poverty in a country where some 6.5 million people feel they are increasingly left behind in society, a new underclass that may undermine the stability of any government, observers say. Commissioned by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, a think tank with close links to the governing center-left Social Democratic Party, or SPD, the study entitled "Society in the ... more The Tbilisi Circus Act Three Is Over 
Moscow (UPI) Oct 04 2006The circus show, poorly orchestrated and performed by the Georgian security services, is over. The four arrested Russian officers were deported to Russia after five days in prison, and arrived in Moscow safe and sound. Nevertheless, Russia's economic, transport, bank and postal blockade of Georgia in response to what President Vladimir Putin called an "act of state terrorism", has not been lifte ... more Romania And Bulgaria Head For EU Membership
Bratislavia, Slovakia (UPI) Sep 26, 2006Whatever else motivated the European Union to invite Bulgaria and Romania to join the 25 nation bloc next January, it was not the wealth they will add to Europe's economy. After accession, the two Black Sea countries will add 6 percent to the EU's population, currently about 450 million, but just one percent to gross domestic product. Figures from the EU's statistical agency Eurostat put wealth ... more
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