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U.S. to Send Troops to East Europe to Counter Russia

Some 2,000 American troops will be deployed to Poland and Germany, while around 1,000 troops now based in Germany will head to Romania U.S. President Joe Biden has approved sending additional forces to Eastern Europe, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday, as Washington reinforces its allies against what it …

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Turkey, Ukraine to sign free trade agreement

Turkish-Ukrainian trade is on the rise and Ukraine recently used Turkish combat drones against Russia-backed forces. Turkey and Ukraine will sign a free trade agreement in Kyiv tomorrow, the Turkish trade minister said today. “We will sign a New Generation Free Trade Agreement with Ukraine as the fruit of more …

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The Pandemic Is Providing Cover for ‘Opportunistic Repression’

On Wednesday, Tunisia announced that it had restored its pandemic-era restrictions, imposing a 10 p.m. curfew and banning all gatherings for two weeks. According to President Kais Saied’s government, the decision was made in order to combat the recent, rapid spread of the coronavirus’s omicron variant. Yet the timing was …

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Poland’s Democratic Erosion Is as Worrying as Its Border Crisis

In September 2021, the Polish government declared a state of emergency along its border with Belarus, which is also the European Union’s eastern frontier, in response to a large influx of migrants from countries including Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. The route and timing of the migrants’ journey into Europe was …

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Ambassadeur expulsé du Mali: que faire de cette «humiliation»?

D’une guerre perdue, il n’existe malheureusement pas de « sortie honorable ». Comme Eric Vuillard dans un livre récent sur l’Indochine, le Mali en fournit une nouvelle démonstration. Paris a donc « pris note » del’expulsion de l’ambassadeur de France par les autorités maliennes, se donnant le temps de consulter …

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Колода «украинских карт»

Активизация диалога России и Запада по проблемам безопасности запустила процесс радикальной перенастройки отношений Украины со всем евроатлантическим сообществом. Главный тектонический сдвиг состоит в том, что ставка как на американский, так и на общеевропейский внешнеполитический проекты теряет для Киева прежний смысл. Вашингтон все более активно подталкивает Киев к выполнению Минских соглашений, …

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Putin macht Orbán einen Vorzugspreis

Ungarns Ministerpräsident Viktor Orbán hat sein Land zu einem bevorzugten Partner autoritärer Regime in der EU gemacht. Das hat sich für beide Seiten ausgezahlt: für Orbán in Form von Investitionen in sein Land, für die Herrscher in Moskau und Peking dadurch, dass der Ungar die Einigkeit des Westens ihnen gegenüber …

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