Ukraine | Vocal Europe

EU-Russia Relations: Towards an Increasingly Geopolitical Paradigm

01/08/2017 Beyond Europe, Inside Europe, Russia

By Tania Marocchi [dropcap size=small]E U-Russia relations are shaped by their different approaches to international politics. Where the former follows a liberal path, the latter pursues a neorealist paradigm In 2014, Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its…

Friends or Foes, Tensions or Ties – A US View on EU-Russian Relations

19/07/2017 Beyond Europe, Russia

Vocal Europe

P ositions between the EU and the US diverge regarding democratic values and a business man approach when it comes to multi-lateral negotiations. The American policy on Russia and the new Franco-German sympathies will…

Ukraine’s quiet revolution

11/05/2017 Beyond Europe

Vocal Europe

by Žiga Turk In the EU we have the luxury reflecting upon if we would rather have a one-speed or two-speed Europe, we complain that governments don’t do this and the EU does not do that.…

Monday Talk with Sweden’s Ambassador to NATO on Emerging Security Challenges

13/03/2017 Ambassadors Corner, Monday Talks

Vocal Europe

Vocal Europe: Anti-establishment populism in Europe is undeniably on the rise. From Brexit, to French far-right Marine Le Pen, and to Wilders Party of Freedom in Netherlands where rejection of old orthodoxies, political…

U.S.-Russian Relations and the Future Security of Europe

10/02/2017 Russia

Vocal Europe

by ULRICH KÜHN The incoming Trump administration inherits a U.S.-Russian relationship marked by disagreement and confrontation in the wake of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, the wars in Syria and Ukraine, the West’s use of economic sanctions,…

TurkStream and Its Second Line: Challenge for Some, Opportunity for Others

17/01/2017 Business

Madalina Sisu Vicari

by Madalina Sisu Vicari From South Stream to TurkStream but with much less gas On October 10, 2016, on the sidelines of the World Energy Congress in Istanbul, and in the presence of the presidents Vladimir…

Minsk reloaded: why Putin’s Russia is winning and Europe is not

05/11/2016 Russia

Vocal Europe

by Viktoria Jancosekova "We don’t understand one another, we don’t trust each other, but we are at least able to meet." This was one of the most memorable quotes from last week’s meeting of the Normandy group…

Talk but No Action: Inside discussion from meeting of 28 EU Foreign ministers

05/09/2016 The Opinion

Vocal Europe

by Rohini Hiremath The traditional informal meeting of 28 European Union Foreign ministers took place in Bratislava on 2nd and 3rd of September, 2016, which was hosted by Mr Miroslav Lajčák, Minister for Foreign and…

Crimea: will a new conflict take place?

17/08/2016 Russia

Vocal Europe

by Sergej Sumlenny & Eugenia Andreyuk The situation around occupied Crimea remains unstable. Within the last days, Russia has accused Ukraine in “state terrorism” and started massive military drills along Ukrainian border. Fears of a new Russian invasion…

One Year After Minsk II – Reviewing Options of Countering Russian Disinformation Efforts

22/04/2016 Russia

Vocal Europe

by Mirko Moser-Abt The migrant crisis and the subsequent political turmoil have banished from our minds a conflict that has been fairly present in Europe for the past two years: the war in Eastern Ukraine. Initially…

Tag: Ukraine