Posted by seumasach on July 11, 2014
Voice of Russia
11th July, 2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed the need to stop the armed confrontation in the Gaza Strip, in a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Kremlin press service reported. “A detailed discussion took place on the sharp escalation of the situation in the Gaza Strip and the south of Israel. The Russian side stressed the need for a speedy end to the armed confrontation, which has led to numerous casualties among the civilian population,” the Kremlin’s statement reads, noting that the conversation, which also touched on further bilateral contacts between the two countries, was initiated by the Israeli side.
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Posted by seumasach on July 11, 2014
Far from being isolated, Russian diplomacy has achieved convergence even with the likes of Fabius. It is Poroshenko and his State Department backers who is isolated. As for the Ukrainian forces bombing Ukrainian cities, largely consisting of fascist and mercenary elements, they are beyond the pale internationally and can only continue to operate as long as Western media can obscure their existence.
Russian, French FMs acknowledge Kiev not observing Berlin agreements on resolving Ukraine crisis
Voice of Russia
9th July, 2014
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had a telephone conversation with his French counterpart, Laurent Fabius, on Wednesday. The ministers discussed settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry. “The French minister emphasized the ongoing aggravation of the situation in the southeastern regions of the country, while acknowledging that in practice the authorities in Kiev have departed from the agreements reached by the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany in Berlin on July 2, 2014,” the statement said.
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Posted by seumasach on July 11, 2014
To minimize the expense to euro zone taxpayers, European Union policymakers have drawn up a law under which shareholders, creditors and very large depositors will lose money first in the event of a bank failure.
For some reason many commentators fail to distinguish between bail-in, as is the case here, and bailout, as we saw in US/UK in 2008. The above makes it clear.
Independent.ie
11th July, 2014
Germany’s cabinet has approved a package of draft laws which effectively give the go-ahead to Europe’s plans for banking union – the main confidence-building response to the crisis in the financial sector, a government source said yesterday.
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Posted by seumasach on July 11, 2014
Russia Beyond The Headlines
9th July, 2014
Russia’s United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has confirmed Federal Migration Service (FMS) data indicating that around half a million Ukrainian citizens have fled from the conflict in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of eastern Ukraine to Russia.
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Posted by seumasach on July 11, 2014
The Local
10th July, 2014
One hundred of France’s leading luminaries have launched a campaign to oppose Europe’s negotiations with the United States that would create a massive free trade zone. The group are worried about a lowering of “social standards”, as well as tainted American food products
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Posted by seumasach on July 9, 2014
…calls for ‘rebalancing’ of world currencies
RT
7th July, 2014
The French government wants to break the monopoly the dollar has on international transactions after the country’s largest bank, BNP Paribas, was slapped with a record $9 billion fine and a 1-year dollar trading ban.
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Posted by seumasach on July 8, 2014
Europe Solidaire
25th June, 2014
Le Comité de rédaction de Europe-solidaire approuve et signe cette déclaration. Soit par ordre alphabétique Jean-Paul Baquiast, Luc Brunet, Jean-Claude Empereur, Christophe Jacquemin, François Vadrot
We 1) the undersigned members of civil society in Europe and the BRICS (academic professors and researchers, think-tank leaders, journalists, business representatives, civil society representatives), declare our common worry about the trends currently at play resulting from the crisis in Ukraine. These trends are affecting the international community, threatening the sovereignty of Ukraine and the independence of Europe mainly, triggering an unwelcome polarisation of the international system and impacting an always fragile geopolitical balance.
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Posted by seumasach on July 4, 2014
India okay with BCIM, wants details on China maritime silk road
Times of India
30th June, 2014
BEIJING: India today backed China’s initiative to build a regional economic corridor also linking Bangladesh and Myanmar, but sought more details from Beijing about its plans for a Maritime Silk Road (MSR) before deciding to take part in the endeavour.
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Posted by seumasach on July 4, 2014
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline
4th June, 2014
The deployment of additional 30000 Saudi forces on the border with Iraq underscores that in Riyadh’s perception, a protracted conflict has erupted across the border and it wants to insulate itself from fall-outs. It’s inconceivable that Saudis want to take advantage of the growing anarchy in Iraq to grab some territory across the border. Nor is it the Saudi style to render help to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant [ISIL] directly across the border; the Jordanian route has served the purpose so far.
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Posted by seumasach on July 4, 2014
Will Good Sense Prevail?
Ray McGovern
Counterpunch
3rd July, 2014
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko – by thumbing his nose at the leaders of Russia, Germany and France as they repeatedly appealed to him to renew the fragile ceasefire in eastern Ukraine – has left himself and his U.S. patrons isolated, though that’s not the version of the story that you’ll read in the mainstream U.S. press.
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Posted by seumasach on July 2, 2014
EUBusiness
1st July, 2014
(MOSCOW) – President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday described the conflict in Ukraine as the culmination of Western efforts to contain Russia and sought to play Moscow’s “natural partner” Europe against the United States.
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