Recently added articles from Europe-East:
INTERVIEW WITH TIM OSBORNE, CEO OF GML (EX-YUKOS SHAREHOLDER) : RUSSIA BOUND BY ENERGY CHARTER TREATY.
Jun 25, 2009 ... Tim Osborne, CEO of GML, the main shareholder of the expropriated Yukos company, expects a decision soon on a case brought under the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT). GML is claiming some US$50 billion in damages from Russia for "illegal" expropriation. Osborne disputes Russian President Dmitry ...
"TBILISI IS DOING MUCH LESS THAN IT COULD".
Jun 25, 2009 ... The opposition has been holding demonstrations in the streets of Tbilisi for the last two months against Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili, who is being held responsible for the country's lack of democracy, its stagnating economy and its diplomatic problems. The war lost against ...
THE OTHER SUMMIT.(Brief article)(Conference notes)
Jun 25, 2009 ... The heads of state of 14 Central European countries called for unity in combating the far-reaching effects of the global economic crisis in the region and speeding up rapprochement between the European Union and the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Opening their summit, on 19 June in ...
INTERVIEW WITH VACLAV BARTUSKA, EU SPECIAL ENVOY ON ENERGY SECURITY : "WE'RE STRONG ENOUGH TO WITHSTAND THE BLACKMAIL OF SUPPLIERS".
Jun 25, 2009 ... A former student leader in the Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia in 1989, Vaclav Bartuska's current mandate from the Czech EU Presidency is similarly ambitious: to ensure a secure energy supply for Europe. In an exclusive interview with Europolitics, ...
AID PACKAGE TO BELARUS ANNOUNCED.
Jun 25, 2009 ... On the eve of External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner's visit to Belarus, the European Commission announced, on 19 June, the allocation of an assistance package of 10 million for the improvement of food safety and quality in Belarus. As a consequence of the Chernobyl nuclear ...
AIR AGREEMENT WITH GEORGIA.(Brief article)
Jun 25, 2009 ... The Council of Transport Ministers authorised the European Commission to open negotiations for a global air agreement with Georgia. The decision was made at their meeting in Luxembourg on 11 June. The objective is to create a common airspace between the EU and Georgia, which would be based ...
EU/SERBIA : ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT MAY BE UNBLOCKED BY AUTUMN.(Conference notes)
Jun 25, 2009 ... The Netherlands could show itself to be more relaxed over the coming months with regard to Serbia and the interim implementation of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA). At least, this is the hope of several diplomats following the report on Belgrade's cooperation with the ...
JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS : COMMISSION OUTLINES MECHANISM FOR SHARING REFUGEES.
Jun 25, 2009 ... After a decade of justice, security and freedom policy, the European Commission proposed, on 10 June, to update the EU's priorities, which would include the creation of a Schengen visa, strengthening of the Frontex border control agency, a common framework for immigration and sharing of ...
EU/BALKANS : CROATIA-SLOVENIA ROW: BILDT WILL NOT MEDIATE.(Conference notes)
Jun 25, 2009 ... Although the Swedish EU Presidency strongly supports the Union's further enlargement, it does not intend to waste energy trying to settle bilateral conflicts that are slowing membership of the Western Balkan states. Foreign Minister Carl Bildt could not have been clearer as he presented ...
REGIONAL POLICY : DANUBE REGION STRATEGY DUE BEFORE END 2010.(Brief article)(Conference notes)
Jun 25, 2009 ... The participants in last week's European Council meeting invited the European Commission to present an EU strategy for the Danube river region before the end of 2010. The strategy should aim "to introduce the Danube as a priority objective for the European Council,' said Romanian ...
EBRD FUNDS CROATIAN GAS STORAGE PROJECT.
Jun 25, 2009 ... The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing 70 million to the Croatian state-owned Plinacro gas transmission operator, allowing it to acquire a gas storage facility in Okoli, near the capital Zagreb. The EBRD announced the loan as the first of several gas ...
EIB LOANS IN TURKEY.(European Union. European Investment Bank)(Brief article)
Jun 25, 2009 ... The European Investment Bank signed, on 8 June, three loan agreements worth 885 million with Turkey. First, a 335 million facility has been signed with the treasury, in support of public sector research activities. The facility will part-finance R&D activities performed by academic staff ...
EIB LOAN TO BALTIC WATER COMPANY.
Jun 25, 2009 ... In line with the priorities set down in the Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership, the European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending 17.5 million to Vodokanal, St Petersburg's water company, to finance a reduction of the pollution discharged into the Gulf ...
EU/RUSSIA : ENERGY QUESTIONS DOMINATE SUMMIT.(Conference notes)
Jun 25, 2009 ... The EU-Russia summit, held on 21-22 May in the Far-Eastern town of Khabarovsk, Siberia, was dominated by energy questions, with little evident progress made on other issues, whether replacing the EU-Russia partnership and cooperation agreement (PCA) that expired in December 2007 or ...
IMMIGRATION/EUROPEAN COUNCIL : EU PLEDGES TO TACKLE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IN MEDITERRANEAN.
Jun 25, 2009 ... Italy, Greece, Malta and Cyprus won stronger commitments from Europe's leaders, meeting for the European Council, on 18-19 June in Brussels, to combat illegal immigration in the Mediterranean and to share the burden of refugees in the Union more fairly. The burden-sharing remains voluntary ...
MOLDOVA : EU PREPARED TO NEGOTIATE AN ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT WITH MOLDOVA.(Brief article)(Conference notes)
Jun 25, 2009 ... The new agreement between the EU and the Republic of Moldova will go beyond the existing partnership agreement, in force since 1998, states the negotiating brief endorsed on 15 June by the 27 EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg. The Union "expresses its willingness to ...
EU-RUSSIA DIALOGUE ON PUBLIC HEALTH.
Jun 25, 2009 ... On 28 May in Moscow, Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou and Russia's Minister of Health and Social Development Tatiana Golikova signed terms of reference for establishing a dialogue in public health. This dialogue goes beyond the current health provisions in the EU-Russia Partnership ...
EU/BIH : EU SENDS FRESH WARNING TO SARAJEVO.(Brief article)
Jun 25, 2009 ... New developments in Bosnia last week have triggered fresh tension that may jeopardise not only the country's European integration but also the stability of the whole region of the Western Balkans. The parliament of Republika Srpska - Bosnia's Serbian entity that is pushing for ...
ENERGY : GAS COORDINATION GROUP MULLS OVER RISKS.
Jun 25, 2009 ... The Gas Coordination Group, set up in 2006 by Directive 2004/67 on security of natural gas supply(1), appeared little wiser following a meeting with representatives from Russia's Gazprom and Ukraine's Naftogaz. The Commission called the meeting over what it terms "rising concerns" as to ...
NABUCCO PIPELINE : GAS PROJECT CLOSER THAN EVER TO REALISATION, SAYS AMBASSADOR.
Jun 25, 2009 ... The plan to build a pipeline bringing non-Russian natural gas from Azerbaijan to Austria, now a cornerstone of the EU's energy strategy, is finally on a good course, a top diplomat whose mission is to catalyse the project has said. 'It has not yet reached the point of no return but it has ...