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Uncertainty on date of EU-Ukraine treaty signature

Posted by seumasach on June 4, 2014

My, this sounds like a good deal for Ukraine: sign away your right to join the Eurasian Union in exchange a vague and unfulfillable notion that you might be able to join the EU!

EUObserver

4th June, 2014

BRUSSELS – Ukraine has asked to sign a landmark EU treaty next weekend, but large EU countries expect to do it at the end of the month.

The “deep and comprehensive free trade agreement” – a 5kg box of technical documents – is at the heart of the Ukraine crisis.

Its signature means Ukraine can have free trade with Russia but is legally bound to stay out of its Eurasian Union.

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EU calls on Russia to help end fighting in Ukraine

Posted by seumasach on May 28, 2014

This message to Russia is as despairing as it is dishonest. On the one hand they’re saying”get us out of this mess, or else!” and on the other denying that they created the mess through their intervention in Ukraine and blaming everything on Russia. Russia is the solution not the problem. And, by the way, the prospect of  Ukraine eventually joining the EU, always remote, has definitively been ended by the EU election results.

 

Statesman

28th May, 2014

Brussels, 28 May: European Union leaders are hailing the presidential election in Ukraine and calling on Russia to do what it can to end the fighting in the country’s east.

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British elite snared in Africa coup trial

Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2008

There is no doubt bigger players were involved and not just in the British elite: Spain sent a naval taskforce to support the coup

Ventura County Star By Lydia Polgreen New York Times News Service Wednesday, June 18, 2008 DAKAR, Senegal — The plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea in 2004 was so improbable, it sounded like something out of a tale from the tropics, too outlandish even for Graham Greene. Read the rest of this entry »

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