MEMPHIS – Today, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a longtime member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, commended Sweden and its Foreign Minister Ann Linde as they take the Chairpersonship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In his opening statement at the meeting of OSCE members,
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While Bulgaria is making efforts to improve relations with North Macedonia, the Russian embassy in Skopje issued a message that could only be seen as a provocation in Sofia.
24 May is celebrated in several countries, including Bulgaria, Russia and North Macedonia, as the day of the Saint Brothers Cyril and Methodius and of the Cyrillic script. The presidents of Bulgaria and Northern Macedonia will visit Rome together on 27 May to honour St. Cyril and St. Methodius, which is seen as a step towards warming relations. More.
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Budget rules to apply from 2023 to avoid ‘fiscal risks’ – commission. The European Commission’s executive vice-president, Valdis Dombrovskis, has argued that the provision of liquidity to the debt markets for “too long” in the European Union could result in “fiscal risks” and that therefore the EU’s rules on budgetary discipline are to be reactivated in 2023. More
Fury over state piracy as West weighs action against Belarus Reuters 2 hrs ago Detained journalist has denied Belarus allegations against him U.S. demands a full investigation
KYIV/VILNIUS, May 24 (Reuters) - Western politicians accused Belarus on Monday of state piracy amounting to a warlike act, searching for a way to retaliate that would match the gravity of the offense after Minsk forced an airliner down and arrested a dissident journalist.
Sunday s action, in which a Belarusian warplane intercepted a Ryanair flight between European Union members Greece and Lithuania and forced it to land in Minsk, has few precedents, and denunciations were worded in the strongest terms.
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KYIV/VILNIUS European leaders threatened on Monday to limit international air traffic over Belarus and possibly restrict its ground transport, after a Ryanair passenger plane was forced to land in an incident denounced by Western countries as “state piracy.”
Western leaders reached for the strongest language to condemn Sunday’s incident, in which a Belarusian warplane intercepted a flight between Greece and Lithuania and forced it down in Minsk, where a dissident journalist was arrested.
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