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A statement that breaks a major taboo in European politics comes from the former German Foreign Minister, Joschka Fischer. At 77 years old, one of the emblematic figures of the German Greens openly argues that Europe needs to prepare for a potential common nuclear deterrence, as the security guarantee offered by the United States can no longer be considered certain. “Europe needs to take this step, because American protection is no longer secure,” Fischer said in an interview with the Tagesspiegel daily. However, he categorically rejects the idea of a solely German atomic bomb, insisting on a collective solution at…
The liquid assets of the National Welfare Fund, used by the Russian government to compensate for the budgetary revenue deficit from oil and gas, could be completely exhausted in just over a year if the current oil prices are maintained, forecast the experts of the Economic Forecasting Center of Gazprombank, the third largest state bank in Russia by asset size. At the beginning of the year, the National Welfare Fund still had 4.1 trillion rubles (approximately 45 billion euros) in the form of unspent funds – currency and gold in the accounts of the Central Bank. The rate of consumption…
Europe painfully discovers how little strategic maneuvering space it has left. Between a Russia it fears, a war in Ukraine it cannot stop, and an America it can no longer take at its word, but on which it still depends, the continent seems trapped in a geopolitical snare. For decades, Europe has convinced itself that geopolitics works on a rule-based system, that alliances are solid, and that sovereignty is inviolable – at least on the continent. However, a recent transatlantic debate has shown that these certainties are collapsing one by one. At a debate organized by the Quincy Institute, dedicated…
The Kremlin’s spokesperson, Dmitri Peskov, warned Donald Trump on Thursday, January 29th, that signing a new nuclear disarmament treaty, following the expiration of the START III treaty on February 4th, will be a “long and difficult” process. “The development of a new treaty will be long and difficult. There are many factors involved”, declared the spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin at his daily press conference, reports Agerpres. The Kremlin’s statement comes after former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev emphasized on Monday that, before the conclusion of such a treaty, “a basic normalization of Russian-American relations is necessary”. “We need to…
One of Vladimir Putin’s closest friends, billionaire Arkadi Rotenberg, has become the owner of “Domodedovo” airport — the largest private air gateway in Russia, which authorities confiscated last year from former owner Dmitri Kamenski and nationalized. According to information published by RBC, as a result of the auction on January 29, Domodedovo airport was sold to the company OOO “Perspectiva” — a subsidiary 100% owned by the international airport Sheremetyevo Airport. Sheremetyevo, in turn, is 30% state-owned and 66% owned by the Cypriot trust TPS Avia Holding (re-registered in 2022 in the Russian offshore on Russki Island). Rotenberg owns 34%…
The Hungarian Foreign Minister raises an alarm in front of the EU Council in Brussels, warning that a military exercise of EU forces on Ukrainian territory could quickly escalate into a global conflict. The Hungarian Foreign Minister, Peter Szijjarto, issued a warning on Thursday, January 29, about plans to deploy a military exercise of European Union forces on Ukrainian territory, emphasizing that such a move could escalate into a global conflict. Statements were made in front of the Hungarian press in Brussels, where the official was attending the meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC). “They want the European Union’s…
From Greenland and trade tariffs to Iran, NATO or migration, Donald Trump does what he knows best: turning foreign policy into a spectacle. Not because he’s interested in details or solutions, but because he perfectly understands the golden rule of modern politics – attention means power, writes Catherine De Vries in The Guardian. When the American president assured that he would not use force to “acquire” Greenland, after days of veiled threats, he only demonstrated once again that his agenda is not solving problems, but capturing attention. The fact that the idea itself was unlikely matters less. What’s important is…
Sweden and Finland are calling on the European Union to introduce a total ban on maritime services for all ships carrying Russian energy products, with the aim of blocking the so-called “shadow fleet” or “ghost fleet”, used by Russia to export oil despite Western sanctions imposed after the invasion of Ukraine. The announcement was made on Thursday by the Swedish Foreign Minister, Maria Malmer Stenergard, according to the EFE agency, quoted by Agerpres. “Sweden and Finland have proposed three measures for the new package of European sanctions” against Russia, declared the head of Swedish diplomacy, ahead of a meeting of…
The political-military analyst Dmitri Snegirev emphasizes that the so-called “energy armistice” should primarily be viewed in a political context. According to him, the very emergence of such signals is an indicator of the parties’ negotiation capacity and their potential readiness for further negotiations. “An energy armistice is not a matter of who benefits more from it, Ukraine or Russia. Such formulations seem, in general, undiplomatic. It’s a signal from both parties about their readiness to negotiate,” the expert explains to Focus. According to Snegirev, the emergence of information about a possible ban on strikes on energy infrastructure is not accidental.…
An intervention by the British Royal Navy caused the crew of the Russian ship Sinegorsk to raise anchor and leave British territorial waters, after authorities identified a suspicious positioning of the ship. A Russian cargo ship, Sinegorsk, was forced to leave the territorial waters of the United Kingdom after it anchored in the Bristol Channel, near the transatlantic data cables. The incident took place on Tuesday evening, when the ship stopped about two miles from the town of Minehead, on the north coast of Somerset County, less than a mile from the submarine cables that connect Britain with the USA,…