Eric Zuesse<\/p>\n
Here are summaries (translated by me into English) of the latest news-reports on Ukraine, in Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten<\/i>, or\u00a0German Economic News.\u00a0<\/i>(Click on the following link to see each of these news reports in full. If you use the Chrome browser, it will automatically translate everything into English.)<\/span><\/p>\n http:\/\/deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de\/thema\/ukraine-\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n ALL ARTICLES ABOUT\u00a0UKRAINE [past 24 hours]<\/span><\/p>\n Bank crash in Ukraine: Delta-Bank reports\u00a0bankruptcy<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n The Ukrainian Delta Bank was declared insolvent, by the monetary authorities in Kiev.\u00a0The fourth\u00a0largest bank in the country will be gone from the corporate loan market because of repayment failures by its borrowers.<\/span><\/p>\n German Economic News\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a003.03.15, 18:25<\/span><\/p>\n —-<\/span><\/p>\n Ukrainian oligarchs gain access\u00a0to European taxpayers’ money<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n In the course of rapprochement with the EU, three powerful\u00a0oligarchs are hiring former EU politicians and SPD grandees.\u00a0The oligarchs want to control reconstruction of the Ukraine\u00a0– though they are notorious in Ukraine.\u00a0For oligarchs to control politics\u00a0and economics is above any political accountability.\u00a0It\u00a0should\u00a0now be called simply doling out European taxpayers’\u00a0money, because that\u2019s what it is.<\/span><\/p>\n German Economic News\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a003.03.15, 18:10<\/span><\/p>\n —-<\/span><\/p>\n Ukrainian oligarchs give Europe\u2019s ex-politicians jobs<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Three Ukrainian oligarchs have enlisted prominent former EU\u00a0politicians, in their “agency for the modernization of Ukraine\u201d:\u00a0ministers, commissioners and lobbyists. The\u00a0oligarchs help to generate new business.\u00a0Among them are the\u00a0SPD politician Peer Steinbr\u00c3\u00bcck and G\u00c3\u00bcnter Verheugen.<\/span><\/p>\n German Economic News\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a003.03.15, 18:06\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a04 comments<\/span><\/p>\n —-<\/span><\/p>\n Ukrainian central bank raises\u00a0interest rates to 30 percent<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n The Ukrainian central bank raised its key interest rate by 10.5\u00a0percentage points, to stabilize the money market.\u00a0The\u00a0country has no access to international financial markets.\u00a0The\u00a0central bank chief warns against the negative consequences of\u00a0the “panic in the foreign exchange market.”<\/span><\/p>\n German Economic News\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a003.03.15, 15:01\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a07 comments<\/span><\/p>\n —-<\/span><\/p>\n US sends Parachute Battalion\u00a0into Ukraine<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n The US is sending a battalion of paratroopers into the Ukraine.\u00a0The\u00a0soldiers will first develop Ukrainian artillery units.\u00a0Later, the\u00a0Americans could train Ukrainians in the use of US weapons.\u00a0Russia\u00a0had announced several months ago to classify the deployment of\u00a0US soldiers or weapons in Ukraine as a provocation.<\/span><\/p>\n German Economic News\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a003.03.15, 13:40\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a039 comments<\/span><\/p>\n —-<\/span><\/p>\n Ukraine: Merkel and Putin see\u00a0progress on ceasefire<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Russia, Germany, France and the Ukraine agree to ease the\u00a0situation in the Donbass.\u00a0The Minsk Agreement should now be\u00a0implemented quickly.<\/span><\/p>\n German Economic News\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a003.03.15, 00:26\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a011 comments<\/span><\/p>\n —-<\/span><\/p>\n Against Putin, Kasparov\u00a0expects violent uprising in\u00a0Russia<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Living in US political exile, a companion of the murdered\u00a0opposition politician Boris Nemtsov said that a peaceful change\u00a0in Russia is not possible.\u00a0He expects a violent mass uprising\u00a0against the “brutal dictatorship of Putin”.\u00a0The sooner “Putin is\u00a0gone, the greater are the chances that chaos can be\u00a0avoided.\u201d\u00a0The German federal government intensifies the tone\u00a0against Putin — although they still avoid directly blaming Putin for the murder.<\/span><\/p>\n German Economic News\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a003.03.15, 10:08\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a075 comments<\/span><\/p>\n —-<\/span><\/p>\n Against Russia: Germany\u00a0delivers battle tanks to Poland<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n NATO’s new threat against Russia\u00a0means that Germany will supply battle tanks to\u00a0Poland and at the same time increase its own troops.\u00a0The US requests\u00a0that all NATO countries invest two percent of GDP in\u00a0weapons. The UK snubbed\u00a0this rule, must reduce deficit-spending.<\/span><\/p>\n German Economic News\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a003.03.15, 08:56\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a080 comments<\/span><\/p>\n —-<\/span><\/p>\n Despite EU sanctions: RWE Dea sold to Russian\u00a0investor<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n The energy group RWE Dea sold its gas subsidiary for approximately 5.1 billion euros to Russian\u00a0investors.\u00a0The deal comes despite the official opposition of the British Government.\u00a0Apparently, money talks, even after sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n German Economic News\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a003.02.15, 14:34\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a06 comments<\/span><\/p>\n —-<\/span><\/p>\n Russia Rubles recovery in\u00a0February was surprisingly strong<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n In February, the ruble gained momentum after the dramatic\u00a0crash last year.\u00a0Rising oil prices and the negotiations of Minsk\u00a0brought the ruble good performance in February,\u00a0despite the sanctions and the tougher tone in a new Cold War.<\/span><\/p>\n German Economic News\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a003\/02\/15 10:10\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a08 comments<\/span><\/p>\n —-<\/span><\/p>\n Ukraine\u2019s Steel industry without\u00a0exports to Russia is in free fall<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n By corruption, mismanagement and war, Ukraine is bankrupt though\u00a0one of the world\u2019s most resource-rich countries.\u00a0The iron\u00a0and steel industry of Ukraine, which is the industry that builds\u00a0on these raw materials, is in free fall.\u00a0The plunge in world prices\u00a0accelerated this development.\u00a0The Kiev government has done\u00a0nothing to counter it.<\/span><\/p>\n German Economic News\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a003.02.15, 11:33 am\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a013 comments<\/span><\/p>\n —-<\/span><\/p>\n Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland\u00a0establish UN intervention force<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has ratified a law\u00a0establishing a common military force with Poland and\u00a0Lithuania.\u00a0It will\u00a0participate in UN\u00a0missions.The Ukraine has for some time, pursued switching to\u00a0NATO standards \u2013 a development that Russia considers a provocation.<\/span><\/p>\n German Economic News\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a003.02.15, 01:00\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a012 comments<\/span><\/p>\n —-<\/span><\/p>\n US Senator McCain: No matter\u00a0who shot Nemtsov,\u00a0Vladimir Putin is to blame<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n US Senator John McCain has assigned to Putin the blame for the murder\u00a0of Boris Nemtsov.\u00a0But his statement remains remarkably vague.\u00a0Apparently\u00a0McCain, one of the most prominent opponents of Russia, wants to make political capital out of a crime that could\u00a0just as well turn out as a private criminal case.<\/span><\/p>\n German Economic News\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a003.02.15, 01:48\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a036 comments<\/span><\/p>\n —-<\/span><\/p>\n Against the USA: China\u00a0supports Russia in Ukraine\u00a0crisis<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n China has clearly for the first time come down on the Russian side in\u00a0Ukraine Crisis: The West must accept Moscow’s legitimate\u00a0security concerns seriously.\u00a0The dispute over the Ukraine could\u00a0otherwise turn into a pointless proxy war.\u00a0The Americans must\u00a0take note that their influence is disappearing in\u00a0international politics.<\/span><\/p>\n German Economic News\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a003.03.15, 17:07\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a096 comments<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>,<\/i>\u00a0<\/span> and of <\/span>\u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Zuesse Here are summaries (translated by me into English) of the latest news-reports on Ukraine, in Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten, or\u00a0German Economic News.\u00a0(Click on the following link to see each of these news reports in full. If you use the Chrome browser, it will automatically translate everything into English.) http:\/\/deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de\/thema\/ukraine-\/ ALL ARTICLES ABOUT\u00a0UKRAINE [past 24 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":142792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,18],"tags":[880,535,541,524,523,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-144055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-latest-news","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-global-news","11":"tag-media","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-ukraine","14":"tag-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}