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GEAB - EU borders - The end of the myth of eternal enlargement: Turkey-Ukraine,
two countries which will not join the EU
The
increasing difficulties of the process of Turkey entering the European Union
contrasts with the progressive entry “piece by piece” of the former Yugoslavia
(26) (Slovenia is already a member and Croatia is starting its integration
process while proposals to integrate the other Balkan countries multiply)...
Germany’s
foreign minister in Kiev in bid to get government, separatists to table
Germany’s
foreign minister flew to Kiev on Tuesday to jump-start talks between the
Ukrainian government and separatists, who announced the birth of two new
pro-Russian republics after claiming landslide victories in disputed self-rule
referendums...
Ukraine:
Schröder critique l'Union européenne
L'ancien
chancelier allemand Gerhard Schröder estime que l'Union Européenne est la
principale responsable de la crise ukrainienne, en ayant obligé Kiev à choisir
entre un avenir avec l'UE ou avec la Russie, dans le journal Welt am Sonntag,
dimanche.
Weak retail
sales cast shadow on U.S. growth outlook
U.S. retail
sales barely rose in April, tempering hopes of a sharp acceleration in economic
growth in the second quarter...
Bundesbank
ready to back ‘significant’ ECB easing
Germany’s
central bank is willing to back an array of stimulus measures from the European
Central Bank next month, including a negative rate on bank deposits and
purchases of packaged bank loans, if needed to keep inflation from staying too
low, a person familiar with the matter said...
Implications
of the US-Philippines defence agreement
US
President Barack Obama's visit to the Philippines, the last leg of his recent
four-nation Asian tour, produced a new bilateral defence agreement that was
touted by some observers as the single most significant outcome of his regional
foray...
U.N. Treaty
on Corporate Rights Abuse Sees New Momentum
Some 500
global groups are calling for action by governments next month to jumpstart the
process of drafting an international treaty to address rights abuses by
multinational corporations, following on a related proposal by Ecuador and
others...
Russia
turns to WTO in response to Western sanctions
U.S.
sanctions against several Russian companies have prompted Moscow to take action
by resorting to the World Trade Organization as an international arbiter in the
dispute.
En Ukraine,
feu Blackwater fait reparler de ses « mercenaires »
Le journal
allemand Bild am Sonntag affirme ce dimanche que parmi les gros bras ukrainiens
qui combattent les miliciens pro-russes se cachent 400 mercenaires d’Academi,
le nouveau nom de Blackwater. Ils mèneraient des opérations de guérilla contre
des rebelles pro-russes, autour de la ville de Slaviansk (Est)...
Maternal
deaths in childbirth rise in the U.S.
Maternal
deaths related to childbirth in the United States are nearly at the highest
rate in a quarter century, and a woman giving birth in America is now more
likely to die than a woman giving birth in China, according to a new study...
China far
from being "aggressive" in South China Sea
The trouble
started when Vietnam attempted to stop a Chinese company from drilling in
waters 17 nautical miles (some 31 kilometers) from China's Zhongjian Island and
150 nautical miles from the Vietnamese coast...
Can
Thailand keep from falling apart?
What the upheaval in Bangkok last week really means for
Southeast Asia's second-largest economy -- and the global companies operating
there...
Fortune
China to build railway linking East Africa
China has signed a deal to build a $3.8bn railway link between
Kenya's Indian Ocean port of Mombasa and Nairobi, the first stage of a line
that will eventually link neighbouring Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South
Sudan...
AlJazeera
EU Wants Single Price in Bid to Break Russian Gas Stronghold
?U Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said the union
wants a uniform price for Russian gas for all its member states, adding
Europe's common gas infrastructure should include Ukraine, Georgia and the
western Balkans...
The Moscow Times
GB : Les craintes d'une bulle immobilière se multiplient
La Banque d'Angleterre, trois anciens ministres britanniques
des Finances et l'Organisation de coopération et de développement économique
(OCDE) figurent parmi ceux qui s'inquiètent du gonflement d'une bulle
immobilière au Royaume-Uni, qui pourrait fragiliser la reprise économique du
pays...
Trend/Le Vif
Power struggle looms after EU vote
In just over three week's time the European elections will
be over but a new process will have just begun – an immense power struggle
between the EU institutions...
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