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Oct 31 2022
News
Euro zone inflation hits record high of 10.7% as growth slows sharply
Euro zone inflation rose above the 10% level in the month of October, highlighting the severity of the cost-of-living crisis in the region and adding more pressure on the European Central Bank.
Preliminary data on Monday from Europe’s statistics office showed headline inflation came in at an annual 10.7% this month. This represents the highest ever monthly reading since the euro zone’s
CNBC
Mar 01 2022
News
Russian invasion of Ukraine forces Europe to redefine its future
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shocked Europeans into a new reckoning of what they value and how much they are ready to sacrifice to protect that.
It is Europe’s 9/11.
But Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, aiming to bomb its democracy and its independence out of existence, is still more than that.
The aggression confronts the continent – and Washington –
Christian Science Monitor
Feb 06 2023
Analysis
The United States and China Still Need to Talk About Nuclear Weapons
Shortly before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was slated to depart for Beijing on the Biden administration’s first cabinet-level visit, the trip was postponed. The last-minute schedule change came after a Chinese surveillance balloon was confirmed to be floating above sensitive U.S. military sites, including potentially an active nuclear missile silo field in Montana. Over the weekend
Foreign Policy
Feb 23 2023
Opinion
Biden’s Kyiv visit shows Putin seriously misjudged his courage
As President Biden walked the streets of Kyiv on Monday beside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, air raid sirens began to wail. A Russian fighter jet had reportedly taken off from Belarus, carrying the type of hypersonic missile that Ukraine’s defenders cannot shoot down. The two leaders did not flinch.
Say what you want about Biden, he lacks neither courage nor resolve. His
Eugene Robinson
May 01 2022
News
Russia strikes U.S. weapons at airfield near Odesa, defence ministry says
Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday it had struck at weapons supplied to Ukraine by the United States and European countries and destroyed a runway at a military airfield near the Ukrainian city of Odesa.
The ministry said it used high-precision Onyx missiles to strike the airfield, after Ukraine accused Russia of knocking out a newly-constructed runway at the main airport of Odesa
Reuters
Sep 09 2020
News
Navalny Poisoning Condemned
“The Group of Seven foreign ministers on Tuesday condemned the ‘confirmed poisoning’ of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny… ‘We, the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union, are united in condemning, in the strongest possible terms, the confirmed poisoning of Alexei Navalny
The Flip Side
Dec 03 2021
News
Peng Shuai
“Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai went missing for 18 days after accusing former Chinese Communist party leader Zhang Gaoili of sexual assault back on Nov. 2… The former French Open and Wimbledon doubles champion claimed retired Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli forced her into sex three years ago in a since-deleted online post to the Chinese social-media site Weibo. Peng has not been seen in public
The Flip Side
Aug 05 2022
Analysis
Embattled Balkans Creep Closer to Russia
Disputes over identity and historical birthrights are part and parcel to the Balkans. A past characterized by subjection to foreign empires meets innumerable ethnic, linguistic, and religious differences, all concentrated in a narrow geographic funnel that forms the (almost) European crossroads of West and East.
Just over the past several weeks, the region has been wracked by heightened
The American Conservative
Jun 22 2022
News
Europe told to prepare for Russia turning off gas
The head of the International Energy Agency has warned that Russia may stop supplying gas to Europe this winter.
Fatih Birol says he believes a complete shutdown is not the most likely scenario but that Europe needs to work on contingency plans just in case.
In recent weeks, several European countries said they received significantly less Russian gas than they expected.
BBC News
Nov 30 2021
Analysis
The World Has No Answer for Migration
We didn’t need a confrontation between Belarus and the European Union over the fate of thousands of migrants and asylum-seekers from the Middle East and Africa to remind us that Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko was a brutal dictator with scant regard for human suffering—we knew that already. Instead, the real lesson of the crisis is what it says about the ability and willingness of
Foreign Policy