Ukrainians go to the polls Feb. 7 to choose their next president. The last time they did this, in November 2004, the result was the prolonged international incident that became known as the Orange Revolution. That event saw Ukraine cleaved off from the Russian sphere of influence, triggering a chain of events that rekindled the [...]
Starting today, December 1, Greater Europe will live under a new Constitution. It took eight years to adopt and nobody dares use the term “constitution” officially because it was so difficult to adopt it. They prefer to call it the “Lisbon Treaty on reform.” The Lisbon Treaty, which has changed the decision-making process inside the [...]
Writing for the daily Neatkarīgā Rīta Avīze Voldemars Hermanis discusses the phobic attitude towards Russia which is widespread in former Soviet republics: "Independently of the regimes in power in each country, the former Soviet republics still form a joint cultural, scientific and leisure time community with ties that reach beyond national borders. … In this [...]
New EU members were slow to set sail for the eurozone, until the global financial storm hit. Now they want in. RIGA – In the good old days, say, two or three years ago, when their economies were booming and it seemed like the growth would never stop, most of the European Union’s new member [...]
Crisis conditions are giving Lithuania’s young center-right government space to slice away at more than the budget. When it’s spoken, it doesn’t hit you quite as hard as when it’s written down: the Lithuanian government, as part of an anti-crisis stimulus package, wants to shrink the state bureaucracy by 30 percent by 2011. Just a [...]
