Europe Letter: Hardball Kremlin tactics could again serve to unify western countries. The timing of Moscow’s move to cut gas to Bulgaria and Poland was telling. It came just as the European Union approached a breakthrough on sanctioning Russian oil … Read More
France, Germany and a number of other EU countries used loopholes in the 2014 Russian arms embargo in order to continue supplying military equipment. Russia has been using weapons manufactured and exported by France and Germany in its war against … Read More
Greeting from Tyler, You know by now of the controversy surrounding the perverted school curricula at Florida schools. They called it the “don’t say gay” law. I guess that was supposed to make us recoil in outrage, and it wasn’t … Read More
Scholz, who took over just four months ago from Angela Merkel, has broken with past policy but is still constrained by history BERLIN — On the last Saturday in February, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz gathered with his top advisers in … Read More
As the United States looks to prioritize security challenges in East Asia, European allies will have to step up to ensure that their armed forces can deter great power aggression and, if necessary, defend their territorial integrity without asking for … Read More
BERLIN, April 5 (Reuters) – Attacks against Russian and Ukrainian migrants in Germany have risen since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said in remarks made available on Tuesday. Faeser told the Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung … Read More
KELHEIM, Germany (Reuters) – Germany’s Mittelstand, the small and mid-sized companies that power Europe’s largest economy, was already battling its biggest crisis in a decade trying to absorb rocketing energy bills. Then the government warned it might have to turn … Read More
BRUSSELS — French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday dismissed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s demand for Europe to pay for gas in rubles as he accused Moscow of trying to sidestep sanctions over its war on Ukraine. Macron told journalists after … Read More
