Category: 3. Europe

“What we are talking about is a rapid reaction force of 100,000 or 80,000 capability, which should replace American forces,” if and when they reduce their presence in Europe, he said. “That’s why I started to use much more this terminology of rapid reaction force, in order not to make this…

Heraskevych’s appeal to Cas asked for his ban to be overturned, to be able to wear the helmet and to complete the two skeleton runs he missed out on on Thursday under the supervision of Cas.

He said his disqualification was “disproportionate” and claimed other athletes had been able to express…

Merz also drew a lesson from Germany’s own history. “We Germans know a world in which might makes right would be a dark place,” he said. “Our country has gone down this path in the 20th century until the bitter and dreadful end.”

Most strikingly, the chancellor confirmed…

“The Schengen area is sliced up like Swiss cheese,” said Slovenian Socialist MEP Matjaž Nemec, a member of the European Parliament’s Schengen borders scrutiny group. “As long as the Commission turns a blind eye to blatant violations of EU law and allows large countries like Germany…

Moscow will be represented by Vladimir Medinsky, a Putin aide who has been criticized by the Ukrainians after previous negotiating sessions.