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Washington and Brussels: Running in Reverse (*) | By James...
The growth of authoritarian solutions in Washington and Brussels in response to self-induced political and economic decline has led to the imposition of sanctions...
How Western Capital Colonized Eastern Europe
Populist politicians are too late with their nationalist messages.
byLeonid Bershidsky
12/9/2017
Yet another Eastern European country is about to get a populist, anti-immigration, euroskeptic government: Billionaire...
Polish government demands war reparations from Germany
By Clara Weiss
22 August 2017
The Polish government of the Law and Justice party (PiS) announced earlier this month that it would demand...
Collateral Damage: U.S. Sanctions Aimed at Russia Strike Western European Allies
by Diana Johnstone
Do they know what they are doing? When the U.S. Congress adopts draconian sanctions aimed mainly at disempowering President Trump and ruling...
Poland may be stripped of EU voting rights over judicial independence
The EU is on the brink of taking the nuclear option of stripping Poland of its voting rights in Brussels in response to plans...
Why Greece is Germany’s ‘de facto colony’
The debt relief Athens desperately wants is hostage to Berlin’s election politics.
By Matthew Karnitschnig BERLIN — Poor Alexis Tsipras.
For days, the Greek...
Vladimir Putin’s interview with Le Figaro
President Vladimir Putin gave an interview to French Le Figaro newspaper, at the Russian Cultural Centre in Paris. The interview was recorded on May...
Macron: a French (potential) Thatcher
by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
Macron “scooped the pool and decamped” in the second round of the French presidential elections, scoring an easy victory over Marine Le...
History Wars – Poland, Ukraine and Lithuania revise the meaning of...
On Thursday, MPs from the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, approved the 'Declaration of Remembrance and Solidarity' of the parliaments of Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania, which put the blame for the events of the Second World War squarely on the Soviet Union.
Brexit deepens contradictions within EU
So many things have been said in every EU countries since the Brexit vote prevailed that it seems difficult to add something new concerning what can happen with the UK and its relations with EU, what can happen in the global economical sphere or what can happen with EU as such