Diane Francis

Financial Post editor, Atlantic Council non-resident senior fellow

EU candidate status for Ukraine is the ideal response to Russian aggression

European Union leaders must decide this week whether to grant Ukraine official EU candidate nation status.

20 June, 05:43 PM 178

Japan, Germany re-arm. What will it change?

Japan and Germany were not defeated in the Second World War. They were demolished.

29 May, 12:01 PM 575

David and Goliath

This week Russia launched its full-scale offensive to take the portions of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region that it didn’t conquer in 2014.

27 April, 11:53 AM 318

Europe must stop financing Putin’s Ukraine war

The head of Ukrainian energy giant Naftogaz has accused European countries of funding Putin’s Ukraine war and called for a complete ban on Russian energy exports.

29 March, 01:38 PM 533

Cripple Russia now

If Russia was a dog -- circling, biting, snarling, and baring its teeth at a cornered victim -- the best recourse would be to injure it to avert an attack. Merely threatening to shoot it would be pointless. Doing nothing would simply embolden the beast and immobilize the victim. 

23 February, 12:43 PM 610
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