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Ukraine’s bumpier road to Brussels
Ukraine's Viktor Yanukovich, left, and Commission president José Manuel Barroso in March 2010 The European Commission announced today that Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich was no longer welcome in...
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In big Obama speech, a European absence
Obama shakes hands with Treasury chief Geithner after his State of the Union address. The news overnight focused on President Barack Obama’s annual State of the Union address. For the Brussels crowd,...
View ArticleA year after Fukushima, a Lithuanian holdout
Next week marks the one-year anniversary of the tidal wave that unleashed a disaster at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear facility and forced a profound shift in Europe’s nuclear debate. Within weeks of the...
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What did Ashton really say about Gaza?
The EU's Ashton and Israeli prime minister Netanyahu meet in Jerusalem last September. Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, has spent most of the day under attack from Israeli...
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Ukraine says Tymoshenko an ‘irritant’ to EU ties
Jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko showing what she called a bruise on her forearm Anyone hoping that the ongoing standoff between the EU and Ukraine over the detention of one-time Orange...
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Morsi’s first comments on anti-US violence
Photo AFP Mohamed Morsi, the new Egyptian president, arrived in Brussels today for day-long meetings with top EU officials. But most of the world’s attention was back in Cairo, where the US embassy,...
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Is Mitt Romney anti-EU?
Romney, left, with Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski during his July trip to Warsaw. The US presidential debates begin on Wednesday, and if the previous year of campaigning is any indication,...
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US vote: Who you gonna call? ECB, not Brussels
Geithner, left, has been in frequent touch with ECB's Draghi and his predecessor, Trichet. A joint election party co-hosted by Democrats and Republicans Abroad at the Renaissance Hotel in Brussels this...
View ArticleTaiwanese animators take on Cameron’s EU speech
It is now become standard operating procedure: a big story breaks, and the Taiwanese news organisation NMA — which came to fame with its CGI take on Tiger Woods’s complicated love life — does its own...
View ArticleEU summit video: A new EU-Syria policy?
Brussels bloggers Peter Spiegel and Joshua Chaffin discuss the unexpected Anglo-French push to lift the arms embargo for Syrian rebels fighting the Assad regime. Continue reading »
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Syria: Fabius-Hague letter on lifting arms embargo
France's Laurent Fabius, left, and Britain's William Hague co-authored the letter to Cathy Ashton. [UPDATE] During Monday’s appearance with Kerry, which includes a town hall meeting with European...
View ArticleBrussels and Beijing aim for a solar settlement
Brussels and Beijing appear to be nearing a settlement in a trade fight over solar panels that is the EU’s biggest ever anti-dumping case – based on the more than €20bn in Chinese-made solar products...
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Post-bailout Turkish talks for Cyprus?
Cyprus' Mavroyiannis, right, with EU's Lewandowsky during last year's budget talks When Andreas Mavroyiannis was appointed the Greek Cypriots’ lead negotiator with the Turkish side of the island this...
View ArticleAn EU-Russia trade fight escalates
What has become an increasingly touchy EU-Russia trade relationship took another tit-for-tat turn on Thursday when Brussels escalated a WTO case against Moscow over vehicle recycling fees. The EU...
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Leaked EU report on US spying: the excerpts
Demonstrators in Berlin protest against alleged US spying activities in July. In today’s dead-tree edition of the FT, we report on a draft of a stinging report the European Commission will issue...
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Twitter diplomacy: Füle vs EU ministers on Ukraine
EU's Füle, right, with Ukrainian president Viktor Yanikovich in Kiev earlier this year Is Twitter the right place to announce major foreign policy changes? That’s the question on the lips of several EU...
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Ukraine & Eastern Europe: leaked ‘non-paper’
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, left, with Ukrainian opposition leaders in Kiev last week One of the lingering questions left after Ukraine’s failure to sign its long-negotiated integration...
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Will Ukraine aid come quickly enough?
A slide from a January 2014 investor presentation by the Ukrainian finance ministry First of all, just how much financial trouble is Ukraine in? Almost all major economic powers were out on Monday...
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EU and Ukraine: the leaked draft communiqué
Sweden's Carl Bildt, Poland's Radoslaw Sikorski and EU's Catherine Ashton consult on Ukraine As is frequently the case with high-level EU documents, the draft communiqué distributed to national...
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Is EU aid to Ukraine really €11bn?
José Manuel Barroso announces the Ukrainian aid programme on Wednesday The EU’s announcement on Wednesday of a new €11bn aid package for Ukraine is both more and less than it first appears. The “more”...
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