Tag: Cooperation
Greek PM offers free holidays to tourists as wildfire compensation – POLITICO
Greece will grant tourists whose vacation was interrupted by the wildfires which devastated Rhodes a one-week free holiday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Wednesday.
“For all of those whose holidays were cut short as a result of the wildfires, the Greek government, in cooperation with the local authorities, will offer one week of free holidays on Rhodes next spring or next fall,” Mitsotakis told British broadcaster ITV, adding the island was now “back to normal.”
Around 20,000 people, including thousands
Michel Barnier calls for post-Brexit UK-EU defense treaty – POLITICO
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LONDON — The time is right for London and Brussels to negotiate a new treaty on defense and foreign policy cooperation, Michel Barnier, the EU’s former chief Brexit negotiator, told POLITICO.
Speaking to the Ex Files newsletter for its 100th edition, Barnier — a former French presidential candidate and key player in Britain’s painstaking divorce from the EU — said it was now in both sides’ interest to collaborate
China found influence in Europe’s west — not east – POLITICO
Andreea Brinza is vice president of the Romanian Institute for the Study of the Asia-Pacific.
Soon after its inception in 2012, China’s then 16+1 mechanism for cooperation with Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) was deemed by some observers as a divide et impera strategy against the European Union.
But what a difference a decade makes, as it is, ironically, Western Europe that’s now putting the Continent’s unity on China to the test.
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Germany learns to be a team player – POLITICO
Benjamin Tallis is a senior research fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations, where he heads the “Action Group Zeitenwende.”
With Germany under pressure to deliver on its stuttering Zeitenwende — the promised sea change in its defense policy — any progress is now welcome. And this is the view not just in Berlin, but in all allied capitals where policymakers understand what such a change could mean for NATO and European defense.
It’s true that Germany has come
Von der Leyen blasts Beijing in Manila speech – POLITICO
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen used a speech in Manila on Monday to take aim at China, slamming Beijing for its increasingly militant stance in the Indo-Pacific and its failure to live up to international responsibilities on Ukraine.
Delivering a keynote speech at the Philippines Business Forum, von der Leyen said that China, a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, “has yet to assume fully its responsibility under the U.N. Charter to uphold the sovereignty and territorial
EU suspends Niger financial support, security cooperation after coup – POLITICO
The EU suspended security cooperation and financial support for Niger and declared that it will not recognize the leaders of a “putsch” that ousted the democratically elected president.
Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, called for President Mohamed Bazoum’s “unconditional” release from detention.
“This unacceptable attack on the integrity of Niger’s republican institutions will not remain without consequences for the partnership and cooperation,” Borrell said, confirming an “immediate cessation of budget support” and the suspension of “cooperation actions in
Macron condemns ‘new imperialism’ in the Indo-Pacific amid growing Chinese influence – POLITICO
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron denounced “new imperialism” in the Indo-Pacific on Thursday as he pledged France would boost its presence in the region to defend the sovereignty of smaller states.
“In the Indo-Pacific, and particularly in Oceania, a new imperialism is appearing, and a power logic that is threatening the sovereignty of several states, the smallest, often the most fragile,” Macron said in a speech in Vanuatu. The French president is on a five-day visit to the South
Niger coup leaves France, US exposed in West Africa – POLITICO
PARIS — An ongoing military coup in Niger is threatening to destabilize one of the last Western allies in Africa’s Sahel region.
On Wednesday night, Niger’s top military brass announced on national television they had overthrown the country’s president Mohamed Bazoum, who was democratically elected in 2021.
“We, the Defense and Security Forces, united within the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland, have decided to put an end to the regime you know,” Colonel Major Amadou Abdramane said,
The bellwether of globalization – POLITICO
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Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and adviser at Gallos Technologies and a regular columnist for POLITICO.
Siemens is the quintessential representative of the globalized economy.
As soon as world leaders agreed on the Iran Nuclear Deal, it signed a €1.5-billion contract to modernize the country’s railways, only leaving after America’s withdrawal made it impossible for Western companies to stay. It remained in Russia
Watchdog to probe EU border agency’s role in deadly shipwreck – POLITICO
Emily O’Reilly, the EU Ombudsman who investigates maladministration and systemic problems, will Wednesday morning launch an investigation into the role of EU border agency Frontex in one of the deadliest shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea.
The investigation will focus on Frontex involvement in search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean, and seek to clarify events surrounding the Adriana shipwreck off the coast of Greece in June, in which hundreds died.
In the aftermath of the sinking of the Adriana, which