Russia eyes EU help for modernisation
BBC May 27, 2010 European Union leaders, overloaded with debt problems in the eurozone economy, are heading to Russia, which, it seems, learnt some lessons from its own recent economic woes. more
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U.N. Official to Ask U.S. to End C.I.A. Drone Strikes
The New York Times May 27, 2010 WASHINGTON — A senior United Nations official is expected to call on the United States next week to stop Central Intelligence Agency drone strikes against people suspected of belonging to Al Qaeda, complicating the Obama administration’s growing reliance on that tactic in Pakistan. more
New U.S. Strategy Focuses on Managing Threats
The New York Times May 27, 2010 WASHINGTON — President Obama’s first formal national security strategy describes a coming era in which the United States will have to learn to live within its limits — a world in which two wars cannot be sustained for much longer and the rising powers inevitably begin to erode […]
U.S. Chides Europe’s Crisis Response
The Wall Street Journal May 26, 2010 LONDON—U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner landed in Europe and reasserted a traditional American role of dispenser of financial advice to the world, telling European governments to get their fiscal houses in order. more
EU to maintain climate strategy
EuropeanVoice.com May 26, 2010 Connie Hedegaard, the European commissioner for climate action, has insisted that now is not the right time for the EU to increase its greenhouse-gas target, at the same time as she published a paper setting out why a tougher target would be needed. more