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The German Chancellor unequivocally reaffirmed Germany’s candidacy for leader of Europe and, more importantly, outlined a course for Europe to achieve “strategic autonomy” from the United States With a little imagination, the annual Munich Security Conference can be presented as a big social ...
... Ramifications Few of us remember how negotiations on the Iranian nuclear programme began. In October 2003, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs of France Dominique de Villepin and Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany Joschka Fischer approached President of Iran Mohammad Khatami in an attempt to persuade him to comply with IAEA requirements and also to provide him with guarantees that his country’s right to develop the peaceful atom would be respected. The ...
... Scenarios 1. Regardless of the resolution of the post-Yugoslav heritage problems, formation of a permanent "Balkan Council" is a top priority. It would include representatives of Russia, the US, Great Britain, Turkey, France, Italy, Slovenia and Germany as international observers, with mediation on the part of the EU and the UN, and also envoys of all the Western Balkan countries. The logical way to give life to this format is to reframe and accelerate the work of the Regional Cooperation Council ...
... administration. Nor is it Mexico or Canada: even Trump is unable to turn the tables on the United States’ relations with its closest neighbours so rapidly and radically. With the exception of Iran, Syria, Cuba and the other habitual targets of U.S. attacks, Germany and China have the most reason to be unhappy with the current U.S. policy. Liana Fix: The Times for a Special Relationship Between Germany and Russia Are Over Trump has been applying particularly strong pressure on Berlin and Beijing; the two ...
... original Nord Stream came under strong criticism, and a 2014 visit of U.S. senators to Bulgaria was soon followed by the refusal of the authorities in that country to go ahead with the Gazprom project to build South Stream on its territory. Even earlier,... ... will simply not be profitable. The construction of Nord Stream 2 would actually benefit Poland. The more Russian gas going to Germany, the greater the surplus of the raw material that can subsequently be traded on the spot market. In order to support ...
... ’s data for 2016 put the number of fired journalists at 2700; the property of 54 persons was confiscated. Kerim Has: Turkey–USA Relations in a Tailspin: To Be Continued It is worth noting that late 2013 was marked by events that official Ankara calls ... ... terrorism . Taking things further, the Turkish leadership also decided to arrest Deniz Yucel, a well-known journalist working for Germany’s Die Welt ; he was also charged with supporting terrorism. For more than a year, Ankara essentially ignored talks ...
... is freedom, then what is unfreedom? World communism professed a similar doctrine in the twentieth century. Prior to that, crusaders and colonizers had tried to impose Christianity, now half-forgotten in the West, plundering along the way, of course. ... ... of the jungle in its worst form. International law and norms of interstate relations were viciously trampled upon. In 1991, Germany and then the European Union as a whole recognized the independence of Croatia and Slovenia which had broken away from ...
... European Studies (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde, DGO) and German non-profit association Atlantik-Brücke organized public debate on the role of the U.S. and Russia in contemporary Europe and the prospects for development of relations between Germany, Washington, and Moscow. On November 14, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) with participation of the German Association for East European Studies (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde, DGO) ...
... will the relations between Germany and the U.S. as well as between Russia and Germany develop in the short term? In order to answer these questions, one should review the dynamics of the relations of the three countries up to the present date. Russia-Germany-USA in the 2000s–2010s. Concerning the dynamics of relations between Germany and the U.S., Russia and Germany over the past almost two decades, one should firstly keep in mind the serious historical inertia in the relations. Such inertia, in some cases,...
On February 19-23, Schloss Elmau (Bavaria) and Berlin hosted 14th annual Congress–Bundestag Forum, organized by Robert Bosch Stiftung and The German Marshall Fund of the United States . The Forum that has been meeting regularly since 2014, is aimed at stimulating dialogue between members of parliaments of the two countries regarding international relations, security issues and globalization. On February 20, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, spoke about prospects of relations within...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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