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Paul Manafort's flight records show how he supervised EU top brass in the run-up to Ukraine revolution
Graham Stack in Berlin
Infamous US lobbyist Paul Manafort organised EU luminaries to plead with Brussels to sign off on an Association Agreement with Ukraine with- out the freeing of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko in 2012-2013, his flight records, re- vealed by bne IntelliNews for the first time, show.
Manafort organised the lobbying campaign on the
Coming US-EU trade war threatens CEE auto industry
Clare Nuttall in Bucharest
Higher US import duties on cars would hurt Central European economies where car and auto-parts manufacturing accounts for a large share of exports, warns the Vienna Institute for International Economics (wiiw).
orders of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, who was ousted by mass demonstrations in Kyiv when he eventually failed to sign the deal.
The information backs up allegations made by US special consul Robert Mueller that, as part of the
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Cars account for 60% of Slovakia's exports to the US.
There are growing signs that having embarked on a trade war with China, the EU is the next of the US’s major trading partners in the sights of the country’s volatile President Donald Trump.
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