In the campaign leading up to this Sunday’s EU-election a Danish political party, The Liberal Alliance, proposes that each and every EU-member state supports fighting Ukraine with 0.25 percent of its GNP. Quite right, report Danish journalist Per Nyholm from a summer retreat in Greece. This is what European solidarity is about. x This Sunday’s
Wien A cold wind blew through the Nordic region, when Russia recently expressed its displeasure over the Baltic Sea borders and confiscated several buoys on the Narva, the politically sensitive border river between Estonia and Russia. No one in the West saw an immediate threat. For that, the Russian troops are too busy in Ukraine.
Rivne It is impossible to travel in Ukraine without thinking about the gullibility of the West after the collapse of the Soviet Union. I am sitting in a coffee shop in Rivne, barely halfway between the Polish and Russian borders. There is peace in the west and war in the east. What does Vladimir Putin,