The security architecture of the past 50 years is in ruins. Robert Misik maps a policy for the new cold war. Robert Misik* ‘I erred.’ With these frank words—not exactly typical for a politician—the German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier summed up his assessment of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and his adherence over …
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James Zogby* Russia should be condemned for its invasion and Ukrainians deserve their freedom — not because they are Europeans from a “largely peaceful” continent, but because invasion and occupation by bullies are wrong wherever they occur and whoever they are. The double standards in political commentary regarding the war …
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Russia has upended the old rules-based order, Paul Mason writes. Europe needs to shape a new one. Paul Mason* While Western capitals scramble to send supplies of arms, munitions and aid to Ukraine, the strategic choices looming over the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are becoming clearer. NATO’s ‘strategic concept’—a 12-year-old …
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Europe’s problem isn’t just dependence on Russian oil and gas. It’s dependence on fossil fuels. Pascoe Sabido* The invasion of Ukraine has exposed the European Union’s dependence on Russian oil and gas. Its imports are directly funding Vladimir Putin’s war efforts, to the tune of €20 Billion in March alone. The EU’s …
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Egypt Today Eleven Egyptian sailors stuck in the Ukrainian port of Kherson were rescued and returned home on a Russian plane on Thursday. The sailors were aboard a commercial ship at the Kherson port when the city fell under Russian control. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry coordinated with the Russian embassy …
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Mai Ghandour – Ahram Online “The European Union will provide Egypt with a grant worth €100 Million in response to the surging food prices on the heels of Russia’s war on Ukraine”, EU Ambassador Christian Berger said in a statement on Wednesday. “The EU stands by its partners in these …
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Ahram Online The Arab League’s Ukrainian crisis liaison group will hold meetings with Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers in Moscow and Warsaw on Monday and Tuesday to seek a diplomatic solution to end the war. The liaison group will meet with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow and …
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Zeinab al-Gundy – Ahram Online Yahia Hassan Yahia Hamed, an Egyptian man in his thirties from Mit Ghamr, was killed earlier on 15 March following the Russian shelling of Mariupol in the Ukraine. Hamed was sheltering in the battered Ukrainian city along with his wife and mother-in-law. “He died immediately …
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Egypt Independent “Russia will continue to send wheat shipments to Egypt and will complete the Dabaa nuclear project and the Russian industrial zone in the Suez Canal Economic Zone”, Russian ambassador to Cairo Georgiy Borisenko, said at a conference on Tuesday. “The funding of Egyptian students studying in Russia were …
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Egypt Today “Egyptian stocks of wheat are sufficient for four months”, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly told a press conference on Wednesday. “The wheat’s harvesting season will start in mid-April. Egypt has enough wheat and will not resort to the international market until late 2022”, the PM explained. Madbouly confirmed “the …
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