Recent Posts Tagged With 'eastern europe'

• Turkey on the wrong track?

  Posted on Friday June 12th, 2009 at 14:51 in europe, Middle East, Turkey, eastern europe

  Yigal Schleifer reports on judicial abuse in Turkey. The kind of stuff EU influence could help change (if it were still credible in Ankara's eyes)....

• Russia: WTO for all or for none

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 10:57 in europe, economics, russia, eastern europe

  Moscow has come out saying that it no longer is interested in joining the WTO unless it can do so as a package deal with its Belarussian and Kazakh trading partners. I'm no expert of the issue but see this as total bluff. The Russians know it'll neve...

• KRG on the rise

  Posted on Thursday June 4th, 2009 at 20:17 in energy, europe, Middle East, Turkey, economics, iraq, eastern europe

  Ben Katcher has a very interesting post about the Kurdish Regional Government's oil export strategy. Apparently the KRG is receiving very little in terms of cash from its energy dealings, yet one reason for pursuing them is to gain legitimacy and cre...

• The other option

  Posted on Thursday May 21st, 2009 at 09:38 in europe, military, russia, eastern europe, u.s. foreign policy

  Matt (Matt Eckel, from Foreign Policy Watch), thanks for pointing this out! I'd never heard of this alternate plan for missile defense. Had you, readers?...

• Obama to Germany

  Posted on Wednesday May 6th, 2009 at 08:21 in europe, Germany, eastern europe, u.s. foreign policy

  There have been reports of an inside chance of President Obama visiting Germany this summer. If that's true and actually happens, my guess is that it will be conducted as a move to bolster Chancellor Merkel's chances of being re-elected in September....

• Just like in France

  Posted on Thursday March 19th, 2009 at 12:10 in europe, russia, eastern europe

  There's an actual "protest season" in Georgia?! Mhm... reminds me of my days in France....

• The Balkans, again

  Posted on Tuesday March 17th, 2009 at 14:55 in europe, eastern europe

  Did you know an EU representative has the power to dismiss any politician in Bosnia? Way to responsibilize the country's leaders:The privileges, known as the "Bonn powers," allow the high representative to dismiss any politicians he feels are acting ...

• We've got a winner

  Posted on Tuesday March 10th, 2009 at 09:48 in europe, military, eastern europe

  So it appears NATO will have a new Danish Secretary-General pretty soon... That's not going to please The Economist, who would rather have had a Pole!...

• Be cool

  Posted on Tuesday March 3rd, 2009 at 09:52 in europe, military, russia, eastern europe

  Let them not repeat their mistakes, writes Joshua Kucera about Georgia and Ukraine:While Crimean Tatars have loyally supported Ukraine, Ukraine hasn't done much to support the Tatars, he said. There was a gentleman's agreement between Ukrainians and ...

• Hidden love?

  Posted on Saturday February 21st, 2009 at 04:03 in europe, eastern europe

  A year after Kosovo gained its independence from Serbia, do the two country really hate each other? Eric Gordy says maybe not:The relations between Serbia and Kosovo are not as bad as they look. But that is probably because both sides are trying to m...