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Debate: London's plans for Brexit

Fri, 07/13/2018 - 12:29
The British government has presented its Brexit plan. It foresees a free trade zone for goods and agricultural products with the EU while special rules would apply for services, and London would be free to restrict migration from the EU. Is this a good compromise or is the UK cherry-picking?
Categories: European Union

Debate: How important is the Trump-Putin summit meeting?

Fri, 07/13/2018 - 12:29
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet for a first bilateral summit on July 16 in Helsinki. On the agenda are arms control and the situation in Syria and Ukraine, among other topics. In the run-up to the Nato summit Trump commented that the meeting with Putin might be easier than that with his Nato allies. Journalists ask what to expect from the encounter.
Categories: European Union

Debate: Czechia: Communists tolerate Babiš government

Fri, 07/13/2018 - 12:29
Eight months after the elections, Czech members of parliament have given their approval to a minority government headed by billionaire Andrej Babiš. The cabinet comprising members of the populist Ano party and the Social Democrats will be supported by the Communists, giving them a hand in government for the first time since 1989. What does their comeback in the Czech Republic portend?
Categories: European Union

Debate: Parliament in Kiev seeking to shut out the press?

Fri, 07/13/2018 - 12:29
Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, is discussing restricting access for media representatives following inappropriate behaviour on the part of two journalists, with one of them making an obscene gesture to a photographer. The Rada has long been looking for an excuse to hamper the activities of the press in the parliament, commentators criticise.
Categories: European Union

Fear and contempt | LB - Ukraine

Fri, 07/13/2018 - 12:29
Categories: European Union

Debate: What lessons will Germany learn from NSU trial?

Thu, 07/12/2018 - 12:33
Beate Zschäpe, the main defendant in the trial of the German neo-Nazi terrorist group the NSU, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in ten murders. The four other accused were given sentences ranging from two and a half to ten years in prison. Commentators observe the advance of a far right movement in Germany and call for the focus on Islamist terror to be revised.
Categories: European Union

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