Contents tagged with Germany
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Lithuania rejects Steinmeier's arms limit proposal
Lithuania found the arms proposal for eastern Europe made by the German Minister of Foreign Affairs, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, totally unacceptable. As the Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Linas Linkevičius, stated on Monday, September 5 in an interview with DPA (German Press Agency), the country “cannot be overloaded with additional limits and upper bounds.”
According to him, the situation in the region remains unstable. The leader of the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs believes …
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German media: Steinmeier is making a mistake by seeking rapprochement with Russia
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper published a commentary by political observer Reinhard Veser, who evaluated the statements of German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier regarding a possible rapprochement of the West with Moscow.
“Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has put himself in an ambiguous position. Through a variety of statements all summer he was creating the impression that the common position of the German authorities on the Russian aggression in Ukraine is in …
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Merkel and Hollande to discuss war in Ukraine at G20 conference
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande plan to discuss the peace process in eastern Ukraine at the forthcoming G20 conference in China, Deutsche Welle reported.
Merkel stated that the EU is not seeing nearly enough progress in the implementation of the Minsk agreements, and she wants to raise the subject at the meeting of the twenty largest economies in the world.
"Germany and France agree on this, and we will work together to promote this topic,” the German …
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Trade between Russia and Germany has fallen significantly
Countries of the former Soviet Union are becoming increasingly unimportant for German business. The volume of export-import operations with major countries of the region, excluding Ukraine, fell significantly. Evidence of this can be found in the data, for the first half of 2016, of the Federal Statistical Office of Germany.
DW reported that this data was exclusively obtained and then distributed to journalists by the German Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations, which is the …
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Germany allocates 8 million euros in humanitarian aid to Ukraine
The Federal Government of Germany allocated 8 million euros for humanitarian activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Ukraine, primarily to help Donbas citizens, as reported by the press-service of the German Embassy in Ukraine.
"The aid is provided within the project ICRC Assistance, Protection, Prevention and Cooperation Activities in Ukraine 2016-2017. Germany has already allocated 7 million euros once this year to support the project. Now they decided to …
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Steinmeier: There has been no progress towards implementing the Minsk Agreements
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier stated that no progress is being made towards implementing the Minsk Agreements, Reuters reported. “We should work to de-escalate the situation,” Steinmeier said. According to him, the ministers for foreign affairs of Germany, Poland and France have agreed to make more of an effort to settle the conflict in southeastern Ukraine.
Earlier, the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, and the President of France, …
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German Foreign Minister calls for new arms control deal with Russia
In an article written for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier stated that he wanted to avoid a new arms race with Russia to ensure peace in Europe. The Foreign Minister suggested that Russia take the lead on disarmament in an attempt to restore trust between Moscow and the West, Radio Polsha reported.
According to Steinmeier, by annexing the Crimea, Russia “violated international law and called into question the foundations of peace in Europe.” He …
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Petition appears in Germany calling for accession of Saxony to Russia
Stern, a German magazine, reported that a group of German activists has created a petition demanding the secession of Saxony from the Federal Republic of Germany and its accession to the Russian Federation. The petition, created two weeks ago by an organization called Pro Putin Partei (pro-Putin party), is available on the websites change.org and Openpetition.de and has already gained 603 votes.
"We are constantly witnessing the fact that the dictatorship of the EU will stop at nothing! That …
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Merkel: The situation with the Minsk Agreements remains complicated
The situation with the regard to the implementation of the Minsk Agreements remains complicated. This was announced by German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a joint press conference with Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas in Tallinn on the 24th of August.
“The situation with the implementation of the Minsk Agreements is extremely complicated. We have not achieved everything that we wanted,” she said, adding that “it's necessary to find a way out together and I hope that with joint efforts, …
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Merkel criticizes Russia and Syrian government over humanitarian crisis in Aleppo
The head of the German government, Chancellor Angela Merkel, called the situation in the Syrian city of Aleppo ‘nightmarish.’ According to her, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russia both must do more to relieve the suffering of the people in the besieged city.
Merkel said she was shocked by the scale of the humanitarian disaster in the Syrian city of Aleppo and sharply criticized al-Assad and Russia. "What is happening in Aleppo now is a nightmare, a humanitarian catastrophe. Calls for …