Former Merkel adviser General Vad has criticized the Ukraine war. Yet it still seems that sympathetic Germans are afraid to speak up.
Read more...Brussels insists Italy must surrender more of its economic sovereignty in exchange for any assistance.
Read more...A filing against Barclays presents quite the rap sheet, and also illustrates why it takes legal bloodymindeness to take on these miscreants.
Read more...Athens throws a decades-long good relationship with Moscow out the window and opens the door wide to US military and business interests.
Read more...Why Ukraine may be under even more pressure than Russia to Do Something when the ground finally freezes in Ukraine.
Read more...Just because the weather gods are now smiling on Europe does not mean its energy crunch is over.
Read more...A piece about NATO’s recent noises re Ukraine sadly reveals how supposedly non-captured, well-meaning activists have lost the plot.
Read more...Is Ukraine’s spin getting threadbare?
Read more...It can’t be said often enough how much damage Merkel did by using Minsk as a clever ploy to hurt Russia and worse now admitting to it.
Read more...A Rosneft refinery in Germany illustrates how difficult it is to get back to anything resembling status quo ante under sanctions.
Read more...Some well-meaning but going-nowhere peace ideas for Ukraine.
Read more...More debate over the impact of Western sanctions on oil price.
Read more...Serbian president says the situation now resembles the “Chekhov’s gun” narrative principle: “If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don’t put it there.”
Read more...Data on banks’ investments in European sovereign debt show that trust importantly influences cross-border investment.
Read more...Yet again reading the Russia/Ukraine tea leaves.
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