by CBBSS | Mar 10, 2021 | International News and Analysis
A Financial Times piece states EU leaders are already facing blowback from their offer to grant visa-free travel to Turkish citizens. The prospect of the French and German ruling parties losing in upcoming elections could blow up the visa-free travel part of the...
by CBBSS | Feb 16, 2021 | Regional News
EU Observer covers the reactions of EU leaders to Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev’s speech in Munich in which he said a new Cold War is beginning. While EU, German and French leaders downplayed Medvedev’s remarks and called for better relations with Russia,...
by CBBSS | Feb 15, 2021 | Regional News
Nato allies France and the U.S. have urged NATO member and supposed ally, Turkey, to stop firing at Kurds in Syria, EU Observer reports. Turkey shelled the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia over the weekend, killing dozens of people in Northern Syria. The YPG recently...
by CBBSS | Jan 18, 2021 | Regional News
The Telegraph reports U.S. intelligence agencies, at the direction of Congress, are going to conduct a major review of the Kremlin’s clandestine funding of European political parties. Russia is known to have loaned 9 million euros to France’s Front...
by CBBSS | Jan 12, 2021 | Regional News
RFE/RL reports Russian gas exports to Europe increase by nearly 8 percent in 2015, despite tensions over Ukraine and EU plans to cut its energy dependence on Russia. Germany imported a record 45.3 billion cubic meters of Russian gas in 2015. Russia’s exports to...
