Latvia’s former President and the country’s candidate for European Union’s first President, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, said that the appointment is being conducted with Soviet-style secrecy and contempt for the public, the Daily Telegraph reports.
71-year-old Vike-Freiberga attacked the EU for operating in “darkness and behind closed doors”.
“The European Union should stop working like the former Soviet Union,” she said.
She is the only person to have openly declared herself as in the running to become EU President, a …

A group of Europe’s influential political figures – among others former Polish President Lech Walesa, former Czech President Vaclav Havel and former Estonian Prime Minister Mart Laar – have written an open letter to US President Barack Obama, warning him of Russia’s increasing intimidation in the region and calling for the US to take a strong line.
Altogether 22 former leaders signed the letter that expressed deep concern over America’s declining interest in the part of …