After a few months of heavy fighting between the Moldovan army and pro-Russian rebels backed by the ex-14th Soviet Army, a peace treaty was signed between Moldova and Russian Federation in July 1992.
Since then, the region has become one of Europe's frozen conflicts. Russia de facto controls the political secessionist regime in Tiraspol, although Moscow acts like a mediator in the international 5+2 format for negotiations.
Meanwhile, in wider Moldova, Russian influence came in the form of pro-Russian parties dominating the political scene.
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9/2/21
3/11/21
EU-Hungarian RelTIONS: A fundamental split | New Europe
In a letter sent to Manfred Weber – the chairman of the European People’s Party (EPP), the largest political organization in the EU Parliament, Council, and Commission – Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban officially announced that his political party, Fidesz, would resign from the center-right group.
Orban’s decision to pull Fidesz out of the faction came after the EPP, which has dominated EU politics for over 20 years, moved to enact a new rule change that would have paved the way for Fidesz to be suspended from its ranks.
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Orban’s decision to pull Fidesz out of the faction came after the EPP, which has dominated EU politics for over 20 years, moved to enact a new rule change that would have paved the way for Fidesz to be suspended from its ranks.
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2/26/21
USA: CPAC Preview: Trump, Election Claims At Conservative Confab - "as even moderate Republicans join to glorify a charlatan"- by Domenico Montanaro
When the annual Conservative Political Action Conference — CPAC for short — kicks off Thursday in Orlando, Fla., it might as well be called TPAC.
That's because this year, it is all about Trump.
The former president will headline the event with a Sunday afternoon keynote address, his first speech since leaving office last month.
It comes as the Republican Party is struggling with its identity after Donald Trump's presidency. And yet CPAC, the largest gathering of conservative activists in the U.S., will still very much be a pro-Trump event.
Read more at: CPAC Preview: Trump, Election Claims At Conservative Confab : NPR
That's because this year, it is all about Trump.
The former president will headline the event with a Sunday afternoon keynote address, his first speech since leaving office last month.
It comes as the Republican Party is struggling with its identity after Donald Trump's presidency. And yet CPAC, the largest gathering of conservative activists in the U.S., will still very much be a pro-Trump event.
Read more at: CPAC Preview: Trump, Election Claims At Conservative Confab : NPR
1/14/21
USA: Republicans ride the Trump train — down to the democracy-rattling end
Fewer than five per cent of Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives voted Wednesday to impeach Donald Trump, a president now accused of the gravest charge laid against any American commander-in-chief: inciting an insurrection.
It's too soon to conclude the Senate will once again spare Trump conviction and punishment, as it did during his first impeachment trial last February, because Wednesday's developments point to some trouble spots for him.
Read more at: Republicans ride the Trump train — down to the democracy-rattling end | CBC News
It's too soon to conclude the Senate will once again spare Trump conviction and punishment, as it did during his first impeachment trial last February, because Wednesday's developments point to some trouble spots for him.
Read more at: Republicans ride the Trump train — down to the democracy-rattling end | CBC News
8/29/19
Migration Policy EU: - While EU split on migration widens - by Jess Smee
Illegal immigration poses an ongoing political crisis for the
European bloc and politicians' failure to act has left Europeans
reportedly more concerned about immigration than climate change.
Will November's change of leadership in the European Commission help improve its track record on the humanitarian emergency?
Large numbers of migrants continued to arrive on European shores this summer and hundreds of people died en route so far this year.
But while immigration dominates the headlines, Europe is divided on how to respond, meaning that the issue tops the to-do list for incoming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Pressure is rising on Europe to take a firm stance on the extended emergency.
In August, Greece underscored its calls for the EU to share the burden of new arrivals amid a sharp increase in migrants landing on Greek islands in recent weeks.
Deputy minister for citizen protection Giorgios Koumoutsakos even warned that the country had "exhausted its capacity" to cope with the newcomers - and called on the rest of Europe for help.
And as well as loud complaints from the front-line nations, Europe is struggling to bridge increasingly polarised political positions on immigration.
Read more at: EU split on migration widens
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Will November's change of leadership in the European Commission help improve its track record on the humanitarian emergency?
Large numbers of migrants continued to arrive on European shores this summer and hundreds of people died en route so far this year.
But while immigration dominates the headlines, Europe is divided on how to respond, meaning that the issue tops the to-do list for incoming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Pressure is rising on Europe to take a firm stance on the extended emergency.
In August, Greece underscored its calls for the EU to share the burden of new arrivals amid a sharp increase in migrants landing on Greek islands in recent weeks.
Deputy minister for citizen protection Giorgios Koumoutsakos even warned that the country had "exhausted its capacity" to cope with the newcomers - and called on the rest of Europe for help.
And as well as loud complaints from the front-line nations, Europe is struggling to bridge increasingly polarised political positions on immigration.
Read more at: EU split on migration widens
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1/30/18
EU-US Relations: Donald Trump's America First backlash: How Europe could be the unexpected beneficiary of America’s fall from global grace
US president Donald Trump has promised to put America first. His
protectionist stance on trade, his implicit threats to pull military
protection from countries that do not contribute sufficiently to NATO,
and his decision to pull the US out of the Paris agreement on climate
change are all designed to rebalance what Trump sees as a drain on
American resources. But the net result may be to put America last, as
allies in every part of the world seek out new relationships to shore up
an international system on which they depend.
As the US loses influence, however, other countries will find opportunity. While Russia and China have aggressively courted influence, Europe, too, could be a beneficiary of America’s fall from global grace—if it plays its cards right.
Washington’s dirty secret is that America’s lead over the rest of the world—economic, military and political—has been in steep decline for decades. After World War II, the US constituted half of the global economy. Today, that share is closer to 25%, according to an analysis of the IMF’s World Economic Outlook Database. Meanwhile, challenger nations such as China have gone from having a GDP equal to less than one-fifth of the US economy in 1990 to exceeding it today (at least if GDP is adjusted for differences in purchasing power).
The miracle of American foreign policy has been the ability of successive administrations to maintain influence in the face of their country’s relative decline. US governments have attempted to ensure that every region of the world maintains a balance of power that ultimately favors American interests. This means that Washington could afford to lose weight in relative terms so long as smaller players in each region allied with America against the rising regional power—whether that regional power was China, Russia, or Iran.
The secret sauce of this strategy was the way Washington allowed its allies to share in the benefits of American hegemony. Europeans, for example, were allowed to benefit from US military spending and the security is provided without having to come up with equivalent spending on their own. Today, however, under the slogan “America First,” Trump is ripping up that playbook—and the net result could be that many American allies are forced to develop relations with regional challengers to hedge against their abandonment by Washington.
As a result, the US might well end up poorer, less influential, and less secure. The risk is not so much that the US incurs losses in individual diplomatic conflicts or isolated trade disputes. However, if America’s allies are forced into new alliances with America’s foes, the new system that emerges will be less conducive to America’s interests.
Trump’s proposals on trade policy and his Republicans tax plan has set the US on a collision course. Were Trump to implement a tariff on cars produced in Mexico, it would not only attract the wrath of Mexico—the German government could also be forced to act, given its car producers’ reliance on plants in Mexico.
Congressman Paul Ryan’s plan for a corporate tax with border tax adjustment would have effectively put a tariff on imports into the US from everywhere in the world, and would have created the equivalent of an export subsidy for everything produced in the US.
Read more: Donald Trump's America First backlash: How Europe could be the unexpected beneficiary of America’s fall from global grace — Quartz
As the US loses influence, however, other countries will find opportunity. While Russia and China have aggressively courted influence, Europe, too, could be a beneficiary of America’s fall from global grace—if it plays its cards right.
Washington’s dirty secret is that America’s lead over the rest of the world—economic, military and political—has been in steep decline for decades. After World War II, the US constituted half of the global economy. Today, that share is closer to 25%, according to an analysis of the IMF’s World Economic Outlook Database. Meanwhile, challenger nations such as China have gone from having a GDP equal to less than one-fifth of the US economy in 1990 to exceeding it today (at least if GDP is adjusted for differences in purchasing power).
The miracle of American foreign policy has been the ability of successive administrations to maintain influence in the face of their country’s relative decline. US governments have attempted to ensure that every region of the world maintains a balance of power that ultimately favors American interests. This means that Washington could afford to lose weight in relative terms so long as smaller players in each region allied with America against the rising regional power—whether that regional power was China, Russia, or Iran.
The secret sauce of this strategy was the way Washington allowed its allies to share in the benefits of American hegemony. Europeans, for example, were allowed to benefit from US military spending and the security is provided without having to come up with equivalent spending on their own. Today, however, under the slogan “America First,” Trump is ripping up that playbook—and the net result could be that many American allies are forced to develop relations with regional challengers to hedge against their abandonment by Washington.
As a result, the US might well end up poorer, less influential, and less secure. The risk is not so much that the US incurs losses in individual diplomatic conflicts or isolated trade disputes. However, if America’s allies are forced into new alliances with America’s foes, the new system that emerges will be less conducive to America’s interests.
Trump’s proposals on trade policy and his Republicans tax plan has set the US on a collision course. Were Trump to implement a tariff on cars produced in Mexico, it would not only attract the wrath of Mexico—the German government could also be forced to act, given its car producers’ reliance on plants in Mexico.
Congressman Paul Ryan’s plan for a corporate tax with border tax adjustment would have effectively put a tariff on imports into the US from everywhere in the world, and would have created the equivalent of an export subsidy for everything produced in the US.
Read more: Donald Trump's America First backlash: How Europe could be the unexpected beneficiary of America’s fall from global grace — Quartz
11/4/17
EU-USA Relations: Trump's Iran plans driving EU toward Russia and China: Germany
U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to “de-certify” the
international nuclear deal with Iran is driving a wedge between Europe
and the United States and bringing Europeans closer to Russia and China,
Germany said ,
Read more Trump's Iran plans driving EU toward Russia and China: Germany
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has spoken
out repeatedly against Trump’s likely step, but his latest comments
aimed to spell out the impact it would have in starker terms.
“It’s
imperative that Europe sticks together on this issue,” Gabriel, a
Social Democrat, told the RND German newspaper group. “We also have to
tell the Americans that their behavior on the Iran issue will drive us
Europeans into a common position with Russia and China against the USA.”
Read more Trump's Iran plans driving EU toward Russia and China: Germany
4/8/15
France: Marine Le Pen, Leader of France’s National Front Party, Splits With Her Father, Its Founder - by Suzanne Daley
Marine Le Pen, the head of France’s
far-right National Front, has openly split with her father and the
founder of her party, calling his recent comments, including those on
German gas chambers, “political suicide” and an attempt to harm her.
But Mr. Le Pen made headlines over the last week, after he once again claimed that the Nazi gas chambers were a “detail” of history; praised the France’s collaborationist wartime leader, Marshal Philippe Pétain; and questioned whether France’s Spanish-born prime minister, Manuel Valls, was really loyal to France.
Read more: Marine Le Pen, Leader of France’s National Front Party, Splits With Her Father, Its Founder - NYTimes.com
In
recent years, Ms. Le Pen, trying to clean up the image of her party as
racist and anti-Semitic, has kept her distance from her father,
Jean-Marie
Le Pen, 86, and his more extreme statements, even as he continued as the party’s honorary chairman.
But Mr. Le Pen made headlines over the last week, after he once again claimed that the Nazi gas chambers were a “detail” of history; praised the France’s collaborationist wartime leader, Marshal Philippe Pétain; and questioned whether France’s Spanish-born prime minister, Manuel Valls, was really loyal to France.
“Jean-Marie
Le Pen seems to have descended into a strategy somewhere between
scorched earth and political suicide,” she said. “His status as honorary
president does not give him the right to hijack the National Front with
vulgar provocations seemingly designed to damage me but which
unfortunately hit the whole movement.”
She
added that, with great sadness, she was calling a meeting of the
party’s executive bureau with her father present “to find the best way
of protecting the interests of the movement,” a statement that some
experts took to mean that Mr. Le Pen may be expelled from the party
altogether
Ms.
Le Pen’s deputy and the party’s chief spokesman, Florian Philippot,
soon said in a Twitter message, “The split with Jean-Marie Le Pen is now
irrevocable and definitive.”
Read more: Marine Le Pen, Leader of France’s National Front Party, Splits With Her Father, Its Founder - NYTimes.com
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