Russia's success in getting Ukraine to pull back at the last minute from signing an agreement with the European Union obscures a deeper trend: Moscow's relations with its neighbors have been on a downward slope for several years, and they show no signs of ...
For many in the United States and Europe, Ukraine's future had been bound up with the fate of a former prime minister with halolike braids who was jailed in an act of political retribution. Freeing Yulia Tymoshenko, according to this view, would affirm Ukraine's commitment ...
Ukraine puts brakes on historic EU deal
Stuck between Russia and the European Union, and chafing at the need to choose between them, the Ukrainian government faltered Thursday as threats from its big Slavic neighbor mounted. The Cabinet suspended Ukraine's preparations to sign an "association agreement" with the EU next Friday — ...
EU will voice concern at summit about Japan's strained ties with China, South Korea
The European Union, during a regular summit scheduled for Nov. 19, will communicate to Tokyo its concern about Japan's tense relations with China and South Korea and call for renewed diplomatic efforts, an EU diplomatic source said. "The Asian region is characterized by a paradox ...
Next euro country in need of reform is Germany
The next German government — probably a grand coalition — will need to concentrate on basic issues affecting the next generation, including whether to establish a minimum wage.
EU hopes exhibit on hanged killer spurs debate
The EU delegation to Japan will exhibit documents relating to executed murderer and author Norio Nagayama to stimulate discussion on the death penalty.
Frugal German election contrasts sharply with U.S.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's calendar this past week looked like this: unpack from an Italian vacation, catch up with advisers and kick off a campaign with a small-town rally for an election that will be held in just five weeks. In the United States, the ...
Hezbollah military wing added to EU terror list
The European Union declares the military wing of Hezbollah a terrorist organization, a move designed to put pressure on the Shiite political and militant group after years of urging from the United States and Israel.
Japan-EU trade talks end in Tokyo; nontariff barriers discussed
Japan and the European Union ended their second round of free-trade negotiations Wednesday in Tokyo, having discussed the elimination of nontariff trade barriers and setting the stage for starting talks on specific articles of the envisioned pact. During the round that began June 24, Japan ...
Portugal's baby bust feeding vicious cycle
For an enterprise in the business of welcoming life, the birthing ward inside Portugal's largest maternity hospital is eerily quiet. On a recent morning, not a single expectant father nervously paced the orange laminated floors. Unhurried nurses shuffled by rows of darkened rooms with ...
Probe launched after Anglo Irish execs' calls leaked
A former executive at Anglo Irish Bank Corp. said it would be "fantastic" if the state took over the lender, as "we'd all get to keep our jobs" and sang "Deutschland uber alles" as the bank won German deposits, according to tapes of 2008 ...
Had Greece quickly written down its debt burden by two-thirds in the first half of 2010, it could have gotten its economy moving again in no more than a year.
