Новости за 28.06.2017

EU states in Nato and Canada spent $46 billion more on defence in the past three years in money that is partly being used to buy more “armour”.

EU seeks novel ways to plug a Brexit-based budget hole of up to €11 billion, but income from fines, such as the one on Google, cannot be relied on.

Croatia said it would not apply a ruling to be delivered by the international arbitration court on Thursday. Slovenia appeals to the EU to pressure its neighbour.

Economic sanctions against Russia, introduced in 2014 in response to Russia's actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine, were prolonged on Wednesday by the EU Council for another six month until 31 January 2018. The sanctions include limiting acces for large Russian state-owned financial institutions to EU capital markets, limitations on Russian energy and defence companies, and curtailing Russian access to sensitive technologies used for oil production and exploration.

The EU is encircled by a ring of the world’s worst offenders on human trafficking, a US state department report has said.

A Dutch appeals court ruled Tuesday that the government is partially liable for the deaths of over 300 Muslim men killed by Bosnian Serb forces in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Had Dutch UN peacekeepers not handed them over to the forces, their chances of survival would have stood at around 30 percent. "The state is therefore liable for 30 percent of the losses suffered by the relatives," the court found.

UN-mediated Cyprus reunification talks will resume on Wednesday, when Greek-Cypriot president Nicos Anastasiades meets his Turkish-Cypriot counterpart, Mustafa Akinci, at a Swiss ski resort, in an attempt to seal a deal to unite the island. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and foreign ministers from the so-called guarantor powers of Cyprus – Greece, Turkey and Britain – will take part in the talks. Cyprus has been divided since 1974.

A year after British voters chose to leave the EU, "taking back control" from the bloc is firmly on the back-burner, as May government’s main ambition is its immediate survival.

Ukraine was hit hard in a global ransomware attack on Tuesday, affecting its international airport, the old Chernobyl nuclear plant and closing ATMs in Kiev. Spreading fast, global shipping firm A.P. Moller-Maersk and the world's biggest advertising agency, WPP Group, were hit, as well as Russia's biggest oil company, Deutsche Post and many others. It was unclear who was behind this cyberattack, which has been named Petya.

The prime minister of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel, maintains that his country had broken no rules and committed no crime when issuing rulings that slashed global tax bills for the big firms.

If the European emissions trading system is not reformed to work efficiently, a Nordic carbon price floor could be introduced to secure future green investments in the region.