ESTONIA PARLIAMENT RATIFIES DEFENSE COOPERATION AGREEMENT WITH US
The parliament of Estonia on Tuesday ratified an agreement on bilateral cooperation in the defense area with the US, RIA Novosti reports. The agreement provides the legal framework and enables a broad range of defense-related activities. The document regulates the status of the US armed forces in the country and the use of territories and facilities belonging to Estonia, as well as the right of US servicemen to construct necessary facilities on the territories provided to them, the parliament press service said. Estonian Defense Minister Margus Tsahkna and US Ambassador to Estonia James Melville signed the agreement on January 17. The US proposed this document in August 2016 for US servicemen being deployed to Estonia as part of the Atlantic Resolve mission. Media agencies
FRANCE’S MACRON TARGETS LABOR LAW REFORM BY END OF SUMMER –
French President Emmanuel Macron will push through pro-business reforms to France’s labor laws by decree before the end of the summer, according to a document handed to trade unions at a meeting with Macron and his prime minister on Tuesday. Macron said during the presidential election campaign that he intended to use executive decrees to overhaul the labor code in a country where the cost of hiring and firing is seen as a deterrent to investors, and where unemployment is near double-digits. Macron’s La Republique En Marche party is on course to win a landslide majority in this month’s legislative elections, opinion polls show. His ability to reform France’s regulation-laden economy will be closely watched by EU partners, in particular Germany.Media agencies
CANADA SEEKS LARGER WORLD ROLE AS US RETREATS
Canada will seek to play a larger role on the world stage as the US retreats, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Tuesday, in remarks underscoring strains between Washington and its closest allies. Freeland spoke in the wake of recent NATO and G7 summits. Freeland, noting that “international relationships that had seemed immutable for 70 years are being called into question,” stressed the value of bilateral ties with the US, traditionally seen as Canada’s closest friend. She also made clear those bonds might loosen. “The fact that our friend and ally has come to question the very worth of its mantle of global leadership, puts into sharper focus the need for the rest of us to set our own clear and sovereign course,” she said in an address to parliament outlining her foreign policy vision. Media agencies
HUNGARIAN COURT ORDERS NEO-NAZI’S EXTRADITION TO GERMANY
A Hungarian court has ordered the extradition of a neo-Nazi who fled Germany to avoid a prison sentence for Holocaust denial and anti-Semitic incitement. Horst Mahler was apprehended May 15 in the western city of Sopron based on an international warrant. The Budapest Court said Tuesday that Mahler agreed to be extradited but would be released if Germany failed to take custody of him by June 16. After his capture, Mahler said he had requested asylum from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, but his claim was not confirmed by authorities. Mahler was serving a 10-year sentence when a court ruled two years ago that he could leave prison due to serious illness. He was ordered to return to prison late last year, but he refused and fled the country.
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