Ukraine
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Enlargement : Crisis makes candidate countries think twice
2 May 20134712PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Ukraine: ‘Strasbourg backs Yulia’
2 May 201334PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Transnistria: Tensions rise along the River Dniester
16 April 201321115 Nezavissimaïa Gazeta Moscow -
France: ‘A cap on bosses’ salaries: let’s follow the Swiss’
5 March 2013351PresseuropLibération -
EU-Ukraine: Financial stick and carrot
26 February 2013151PresseuropEuropean Voice, Gazeta Wyborcza -
Ukraine: EU still fails to get Tymoshenko out of prison
10 January 2013451PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Geopolitics : Could Romania be Europe’s breadbasket?
8 January 20132666 Adevărul Bucharest -
Ukraine : Rude awakening for Ukrainian dream
30 October 2012262PresseuropLidové noviny -
The front page: 29 October 2012
29 October 201218PresseuropThe Times, Kurier, Polska The Times & 4 others -
Ukraine: Slowly leaving the Soviet universe
26 October 20121065 New Eastern Europe Cracow -
Profile: Bare breasts, heads high
20 September 20122039 Libération Paris -
Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko to remain in prison
30 August 2012232PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza, Les Echos -
Europe: Between east and west, a gulf of stereotypes
16 July 201230854 IQ The Economist Vilnius -
Ukraine: Roma flee to the “reservation”
5 July 20121892 Aktuálnĕ.cz Prague -
The front page: 2 July 2012
2 July 201221PresseuropEl Mundo, La Repubblica, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna & 4 others -
Romania: Victor Ponta’s authoritarian drift
22 June 20121012 Revista 22 Bucharest -
The front page: 12 June 2012
12 June 201225PresseuropI Kathimerini, Financial Times, Blic & 4 others -
Rail travel: Lisbon to Kiev — departure delayed
6 June 201213214 La Repubblica Rome -
Ukraine: Euro 2012: A victim of power games
15 May 2012881 Polityka Warsaw -
Editorial: Boycott Kiev’s regime
11 May 2012392Presseurop -
The front page: 11 May 2012
11 May 201226PresseuropBild, NRC Handelsblad, To Ethnos & 4 others -
Ukraine: Euro 2012 boycott still in the balance
9 May 2012331PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Ukraine: Stop there!
2 May 201259 Kleine Zeitung Graz -
EU-Ukraine: Boycott Euro 2012 to punish Kiev?
30 April 201213812PresseuropDie Tageszeitung, Gazeta Wyborcza, Jyllands-Posten -
Ukraine: Offside?
27 April 201258 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Climate: Snowed in
7 February 201247 -
Immigration: Bulgarian passport opens doors to West
7 December 20111633 Trud Sofia -
Editorial: Our neighbour Putin
2 December 201164Presseurop -
EU-Ukraine : Don’t pull the blind down on Kiev
25 October 2011613 Postimees Tallinn -
Ukraine: Tymoshenko jail sentence isolates Kiev
12 October 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Eastern Partnership: Summit fails to tackle big issues
3 October 2011263PresseuropPresseurop -
Eastern Partnership: The East, not on the EU’s mind
29 September 20111061 Polityka Warsaw -
EU-Ukraine: Association agreement on track
26 September 201117PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Ukraine: Stakes are high at the Tymoshenko trial
23 September 2011841 Respekt Prague -
INTERVIEW: Paolo Rumiz: “The heart of Europe beats in the East”
5 August 2011PresseuropBlog -
Ukraine: The invasive generosity of Budapest and Bucharest
5 August 2011303PresseuropNezavissimaïa Gazeta -
Eastern Partnership: A policy that moves slowly, but surely
11 July 2011147 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
A town in Europe: Przemyśl's double life
28 June 2011110 La Croix Paris -
Diplomacy: 5 billion to aid Arab revolutions
26 May 201128PresseuropEl País -
Mix&Remix: Happy nuclear to you
21 April 201142 L'Hebdo Lausanne -
Neighbourhood Policy: Ukraine gets visas, but not free trade
23 November 201020PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
Politics: 2011 - the year of Central Europe
15 November 2010Jyllands-Posten Aarhus -
Ukraine / Europe: Back to the Stalinist future
24 August 201085 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Enlargement: EU’s backdoor thrown open
16 August 2010892 Le Figaro Paris -
Music: Eurovision, better than an EU directive
28 May 2010752 Irish Independent Dublin -
Ukraine / Russia: Kiev and Moscow love-in worries Europe
28 April 201015 Presseurop -
Geopolitics: Revolutions fail to change the East
11 March 2010Tygodnik Powszechny Cracow -
Editorial: Brussels-Kiev-Moscow
5 March 2010Presseurop -
Ukraine: Yanukovych woos EU
2 March 2010PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
Ukraine: Brussels and Kiev flirtation is over
10 February 2010PresseuropRevista 22
Moldova is preparing to install check points at the border with its breakaway republic of Transnistria, while Russia and the Ukraine hope to speed up negotiations on settling this 20-year-old conflict. The European Union may find itself dragged into a diplomatic standoff. 
Against a backdrop of global crisis, the battle for resources is set to escalate in 2013. At a time when the EU is turning to Russia for its energy needs, one of its member states could supply the others with agricultural produce. But for this to happen, Romanians will have to take full advantage of their country’s assets. 
The October 28 general election is expected to confirm President Yanukovych’s power and the need for renewal of what remains of the Orange revolution. But in the long term, the country’s enduring crisis will lead to some form of normality, argues a Ukrainian journalist. 
The women of the Femen association, noted for their bare-breasted feminist demonstrations, are the best-known activists in Ukraine. But some, such as Inna Shevchenko, have been pressured into leaving the country. Now settled in Paris, they have opened a training centre in order to instruct followers from the world over. 
In the Netherlands, Eastern Europeans have replaced Muslims as a target of the far right. The hostility is fed by clichés widespread throughout Western Europe, regrets a Lithuanian journalist, who admits that his own countrymen are not free from prejudice. 
Of all the minorities living in Ukraine, the Roma are perhaps the most impoverished. Many of them were driven from their camps on the eve of the Euro 2012 football championship and most live in slums on the fringes of large cities, in misery and indifference of the authorities and other inhabitants. A report. 
Accused of planning to exert systematic control over Romania’s cultural institutions, the new government has been widely condemned by the country’s artistic community. The weekly Revista 22 remarks on the parallels between Ponta’s initiatives and authoritarian excesses in neighbouring Hungary and Ukraine. 
The planned high-speed train that was supposed to link Lisbon to Kiev will not be pulling away from the platform anytime soon. The crisis and the many obstacles on a route that promised to take travelers from the Atlantic to the Russian steppe mean that the European rail corridor has almost ground to halt. 
With less than a month left to go before the kick-off of the Euro 2012, the fate of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko has poisoned relations between the EU and Ukraine — the co-organiser of the championship along with Poland. However, the issue of human rights is only one aspect of a story in which business interests have also played an important role. 
Five weeks before the start of the football championship, which will be held in Poland and Ukraine, the human rights situation in the former Soviet republic has EU officials worried. Several German ministers have even discussed a boycott of the championship if Kiev fails to improve the conditions of detention of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. 
Macedonians, Moldavians and Ukrainians are jostling to obtain a Bulgarian passport. Many plan to leave for other countries in the European Union, but first they must confront the Bulgarian administration. 
Although the recent sentencing of the former muse of the Orange Revolution, Yulia Tymoshenko, has raised doubts about the independence of the Ukrainian justice system, the EU should not give up on dialogue with Kiev, which remains eager to build relations with the EU. 
As the Eastern Partnership summit opens in Warsaw, the EU, which is caught up in the ongoing financial crisis, appears to have little enthusiasm for the project, launched by Poland in 2008. As for the partner countries, they continue to present a wide spectrum of political systems, ranging from dictatorship to democracy.
The trial of the former premier resumes Sept. 27, three days after the visit of President Yanukovych to Russia. It’s a game of high strategy between Kiev and Moscow, in which Europe has a role to play too. 
Two years ago, led by Poland, the EU launched its Eastern Partnership with countries of the former USSR. Now that Warsaw is preparing to take over the rotating presidency, experts are painting a rather dispiriting outcome for this project. 
Not far from the Ukrainian border, the small Polish town of Przemyśl is one of the eastern gates of the Schengen area. But people on both sides continue to keep up close ties, and small trade thrives under the tolerant eye of the customs officials. 
In general, Western Europeans, and the Danes in particular, cling to negative stereotypes of fellow EU citizens fromthe former Eastern bloc. Hungary and Poland, however, at the helm of Europe in 2011 are likelier to make a bigger splash than provincial Denmark when it takes over the EU presidency in 2012. 
The clocks run backwards in the Ukraine: hardly six months have elapsed since the last elections and nearly nothing remains of the “Democratic Awakening” that rocked the nation in 2004. Writer Yuri Andrukhovych depicts the “internal occupation” of his country and implores Europe to watch closely what’s happening there. 
Millions of Turks, Serbs, Moldovans, Ukrainians and Macedonians could soon be European citizens, thanks to some fancy footwork by new member states 
The Eurovision Song Contest is not just a festival of tackiness, cheese and camp, argues Irish author Martina Devlin. It’s also a chance to have a look at the countries with whom we now have inextricable links. 
The Russians can keep their Black Sea fleet stationed in Crimea in exchange for cheap natural gas: the base-for-gas deal between Kiev and Moscow approved on 27 April by the Ukrainian parliament has made quite a stir in the European press, uneasy at seeing the Ukrainians turning away from the EU. 
In Ukraine and Georgia, "pro-Western" movements, which are hoping for a second wind even though they cannot count on support from the EU, are not only paying for their poor political performance but also for the fact that they no longer figure in Europe's geopolitical ambitions, explains Polish political analyst Olaf Osica. - 1 of 2
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