Rikard Jozwiak

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    27 Feb 2020

    some personal news: after 9 years as Brussels reporter for I will move to its Prague HQ to become Europe editor as of 2 March. I will still follow EU/NATO events & of course , and all other countries I happily call "my own"

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  2. Mar 25

    the Prague city council has agreed to rename a street near the 🇷🇺embassy the "street of Ukrainian heroes" and a bridge after the Ukrainian soldier Vitalyi Skakun. you already have a Boris Nemtsov square & an Anna Politkovskaya promenade nearby.

    Zastupitelstvo podpořilo šestkový návrh na přejmenování dvou míst. Korunovační ul. se na území přejmenuje na ul. Ukrajinských hrdinů. Blízký most ponese jméno ukrajinského vojáka Vitalije Skakuna, jenž položil život při obraně města Cherson.
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  3. Mar 24

    the NATO summit communique might be dry & diplomatic but sources inside the room told me that there were a lot of concrete commitments expressed to in terms of military aid that leaders simply don't want to go public with.

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  4. Mar 24

    the latest draft also mentions that the "European Council calls on all countries to align with those sanctions. Any attempts to circumvent sanctions or to aid by other means must be stopped."

    The latest draft conclusions states that the EU “remains ready to move quickly with further coordinated sanctions” on both & . It also “agrees to set up a Ukraine Solidarity Trust Fund and calls for preparations to start without delay”
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  5. Mar 23

    EU ambassadors today approved the additional 500 million euro for to buy weapons. written procedure ends at 17.00.

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  6. Mar 23

    NATO Sec gen says NATO membership for is not on the agenda at the NATO summit tomorrow.

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  7. Mar 23

    the NATO sec gen says any use of chemical weapons would totally change the nature of the conflict and will have far-reaching consequences.

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  8. Mar 22

    The latest draft conclusions states that the EU “remains ready to move quickly with further coordinated sanctions” on both & . It also “agrees to set up a Ukraine Solidarity Trust Fund and calls for preparations to start without delay”

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  9. Mar 21

    I have probably been away from Brussels for too long already but I cannot for the life of me understand why an EU foreign policy chief at this very moment can spend the first 15 mins of a press conference to talk about "the strategic compass".

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  10. Mar 21

    All eu foreign ministers have now green lighted the additional 500 million euro for to be spent on weapons. Formal adoption expected on wed.

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  11. Mar 21

    no sanctions package on will be agreed today among EU foreign ministers but it will happen in coming days/weeks. banks, more oligarchs and possibly ports. On energy it is more problematic but one solution can be an oil tax instead of an outright embargo.

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  12. Mar 21

    the EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says that what is happening in is a "massive war crime".

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  13. Mar 21

    the Danish foreign minister says that the EU should look to close EU ports to ships from & add even more oligarchs on the sanctions list.

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  14. Mar 21

    the LT FM questions the "sanctions fatigue" in the EU with regards to and ask the countries of the bloc to send javelins & stingers to instead of "hopes and prayers".

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  15. Mar 16

    the NATO sec gen says that NATO allies are united in agreeing that the alliance should not deploy forces on the ground in or in the air.

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  16. Mar 16

    the orientation debate will take place on friday instead. it seems that there will be a bit of pause now before a 5th sanctions package on can be agreed.

    there is no denying that some in the EU were/are disappointed with the EU's 4th sanctions package on . there will be an orientation debate tomorrow among EU ambassadors on a potential 5th package in which more measures in the energy sector will be discussed.
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  17. Mar 15

    and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) overwhelmingly passed the opinion asking to be withdrawn from the Council of Europe

    has sent a notification that it is withdrawing from the Council of Europe (CoE). separately, the CoE's parliamentary assembly will vote on an opinion recommending the same thing.
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  18. Mar 15

    has sent a notification that it is withdrawing from the Council of Europe (CoE). separately, the CoE's parliamentary assembly will vote on an opinion recommending the same thing.

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  19. Mar 15

    a no-fly zone over is still not on NATO's table.

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  20. Mar 15

    there is no denying that some in the EU were/are disappointed with the EU's 4th sanctions package on . there will be an orientation debate tomorrow among EU ambassadors on a potential 5th package in which more measures in the energy sector will be discussed.

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  21. Mar 15

    apart from listings and more economic sanctions, the EU has also agreed on the suspension on the most favoured nation (MFN) treatment for under WTO rules and to consider ' WTO accession bid suspended

    Written procedure now over for the EU’s 4th sanctions package on . Should be published in the official journal later today.
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