The choice between Russia and the West should be Ukraine’s, and Russia should respect that choice and structure its relations with its neighbor accordingly.
Ukraine’s decision not to sign a landmark agreement with the EU does not signal defeat for the EU’s foreign policy. On the contrary, the bloc emerges stronger than before.
The protests in Kiev are now almost two weeks old. They began after the Ukrainian government first decided to suspend negotiations with the EU on 21 November, but have gained new intensity after President Yanukovych left the Vilnius Summit on 28-29 November empty-handed, without signing the key Agreements.
Since the break-up of the USSR, the South Caucasus has trodden a chequered path, both political and economic. Is democracy really what the people want? Or just what Western donors and investors think they should have?
Despite recent progress in Sweden and Germany, the European Union's disjointed asylum policies are forcing Syrian refugees to rely on smugglers.
Peut-on imaginer le Maghreb sans l’Europe ?
Olaf Osica, Director of the Centre for Eastern Studies in Warsaw, argues that despite the setbacks at the Vilnius Summit, the Eastern Partnership remains the only real instrument of Western policy toward Europe's East and calls on the EU to exert maximum effort to ensure Georgia and Moldova maintain their European trajectory, while keeping the door open to the societies of the other EaP countries regardless of their leaders' decision on whether to go East or West.
Russia is not against a EU-Ukraine union. On the contrary, the Kremlin's Greater Europe idea forsees a close union between the EU, Russia and Ukraine.
Libya has seen its post-revolutionary transitional phase hijacked by armed gangs and opportunists.
The Vilnius summit was overshadowed by Russia’s zero-sum policies and disappointment over Ukrainian President Yanukovich’s unwillingness to sign an Association Agreement with the EU, resulting in mass protests in Kyiv.
The Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers unanimously decided o NOv. 21 “to stop the process of preparation for the signing of the association agreement” between Ukraine and the European Union. This decree came as a complete surprise. All previous indications were that Ukraine was planning to sign this important agreement in Vilnius on Nov. 28.
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Europe is changing faster today than the continental public opinion might have thought before May 2004. The Association Agreement with Ukraine to the EU can also an incredibly positive opportunity for Russia; despite the fact that some old school politicians have said that the Eastern Partnership is a western intrusion into Moscow’s backyard and a blow to the concept of spheres of influence.
How did a young British man with no combat experience join the Free Syrian Army? A London student tells Samira Shackle about the horror of finding himself out of his depth in a bloody conflict
Recent protests in the Ukrainian capital are the biggest since the Orange Revolution of 2004. There are signs that this time around, things might turn out differently.
The vote down by the Ukrainian Parliament of six bills to allow medical treatment to former PM Yulia Tymoshenko signed the end of Ukraine’s road to Europe. The EU must keep the door open toward Ukraine, in order not to advantage Putin’s Russia.
The EU’s Eastern Partnership (EaP), unveiled four years ago to build better neighbourly relations with six former Soviet republics, is in crisis. The EaP was launched by EU members such as Sweden and Poland (with the backing of Britain) keen to...
interest - Mahmoud Salem Our dear military, we have a problem, and one that needs to be addressed immediately. We seem to have conflicting interests, and I fear that
By Yegor Paanukoski
November 13 could have been the day when Verkhovna Rada or National Parliament of Ukraine would have passed the law allowing imprisoned ex-PM Yulia Tymoshenko to travel to Berli...
Now Europe’s poorest nation can’t wait to join, writes Colin Freeman in Puhoi
Sustained government propaganda will convince any waverers that political stability and economic prosperity are far more important than personal freedoms, rule of law, universal human rights and democratic values. Despite the wishful thinking of the crowds, the final chapter of the Arab Spring is being written: it is about over.
Upwards of 100,000 people thronged the streets of Kiev, Ukraine's capital, to protest the government's decision to abandon an agreement with the EU in favor of better ties with the Kremlin....
Israeli defense technology adviser Haim Assa explains in his book on Marx, Nietzsche and Tahrir Square that cyberspace has enabled the masses to understand their force and ability to topple leaders, in a democracy building process that may last for a decade.
Several initiatives by Middle East countries may be a good start, but there is still a long way to go to combat sexual violence in the region.
EU diplomats have given up hope that Ukraine will sign an EU association and free trade treaty at the Vilnius summit later this month.
Several economic scenarios could potentially play out in Tunisia amid unstable security and bad governance, none of which look good.
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