Tag: Europe

September 1914

Geoffrey Norman · September 8, 2014 4:00 am

Pro-Russian rebels stand next to their car with a heavy machine gun in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Examiner Q&A with Devin Nunes: ‘It might already be too late’ for Ukraine

David M. Drucker · September 7, 2014 3:38 pm

President Barack Obama arrives on the South Lawn of the White House after returning from the NATO Summit in Whales, on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama in Europe: Brief glimpse of good old days

Julie Pace · September 6, 2014 4:49 pm

National Security

Mixed views in East Europe on higher NATO defense

Monika Scislowska · September 6, 2014 4:28 pm

From left, British Prime Minister David Cameron, U.S. President Barack Obama, Romanian President Traian Basescu, Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev and British RAF Group Captain David Bentley watch a flypast on the second day of a NATO summit at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Wales on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

NATO creates ‘spearhead’ to deter Russia

JohnThor Dahlburg · September 5, 2014 8:25 pm

President of European Central Bank Mario Draghi talks during a news conference in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014, following a meeting of the ECB governing council. The European Central Bank has cut its interest rates and announced a new stimulus program that involves buying financial assets, a bid to salvage a weak economic recovery. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

ECB surprises with rate cuts, new stimulus plan

David McHugh · September 4, 2014 9:45 pm

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko speaks during a media conference during a NATO summit at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Wales on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. In a two-day summit leaders will discuss, among other issues, the situation in Ukraine and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Ukraine’s leader: Careful optimism on peace talks

JohnThor Dahlburg · September 4, 2014 9:41 pm

Pro-Russian rebels lead suppressive fire at the positions of Ukrainian army, during shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine on Wednesday. (AP/Mstyslav Chernov)

National Security

NATO exercise puts U.S. troops in Ukraine

Charles Hoskinson · September 4, 2014 4:42 pm

The European Central Bank announced that it would cut its targets for interest rates, lowering its main target to just 0.05 percent and pushing the interest rate it pays on excess bank liquidity even further into negative territory, to -0.2 percent. (iStock)

Europeans ramp up stimulus

Joseph Lawler · September 4, 2014 4:06 pm

Talks between Iran and six other world powers will resume later this month in New York, the European Union announced Thursday.ÃÂ The preliminary meetings will begin in Vienna on Sept. 11 between Iran, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. (AP Photo)

National Security

Iranian nuclear talks return

Kelly Cohen · September 4, 2014 1:37 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin waves after a wreath laying ceremony at the monument to Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. A day ahead of a NATO summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued his own peace plan for eastern Ukraine, calling on the Russian-backed insurgents there to "stop advancing" and urging Ukraine to withdraw its troops from the region. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Eastern hopes for NATO bases stymied by Russia

Vanessa Gera · September 4, 2014 9:42 am

Connie Hedegaard, the EU's climate chief, said she wasn't ready to settle for a mix of voluntary environmental pledges and some legally binding provisions like the ones the White House is reportedly coveting. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

Energy and Environment

EU climate chief aims for binding climate deal even if Obama won’t

Zack Colman · September 3, 2014 4:42 pm