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Analyses |
| Jadwiga Rogoża
On 2 April, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued two executive decrees implementing laws on anti-corruption and the monitoring of conformity of public officials’ expenditure with their income. The decrees specify the new requirements to…
Analyses |
| Szymon Kardaś
On 3 April, President Vladimir Putin instructed Gazprom’s president Aleksei Miller to consider a plan for the Russian company to build ‘a second line for the Yamal pipeline’, in order to increase the transmission capacity to supply Russian…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
The founding congress of a new political party, Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD), is due to be held on 14 April in Berlin. The interim leadership of this organisation is formed by economics professors, journalists and entrepreneurs who…
Analyses |
| Tomasz Dąborowski
The first quarter of 2013 was a time of fundamental ownership changes among the key gas companies in Central Europe. Those companies which underwent a change in ownership include the Czech and Slovak transmission system operators as well…
Point of View |
| Justyna Gotkowska
Sweden finds itself in the midst of the most heated debates about defence policy and the direction of military reforms since the end of the Cold War, as Stockholm faces the challenge of finding a new military security formula.
Analyses |
| Krzysztof Strachota
The imprisoned leader of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, has released a manifesto. It was read on the occasion of the Iranian/Kurdish New Year on 21 March during a rally in Diyarbakir, where hundreds of thousands of people…
Analyses |
| Szymon Ananicz
During a telephone call on 22 March, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, apologised to Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, for the raid carried out by Israeli commandos on a ship carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza…
Analyses |
| Szymon Kardaś, Witold Rodkiewicz
On 22-24 March, President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China paid an official visit to Moscow. The Chinese leader held talks in the Kremlin with President Vladimir Putin, and met Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev, the defence…
Analyses |
| Ewa Fischer, Marek Menkiszak, Konrad Popławski
On the night of 24/5 March, the Cypriot government reached an agreement with the Eurogroup on a loan to rescue the country’s public finances. In exchange for a loan of €10 billion, the Cypriot government will have to liquidate the country’…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Sadecki
In Hungary the conflict between the Viktor Orban cabinet and energy companies is growing. The government forced the companies to reduce energy prices for households at the beginning of 2013. This striving for a reduction in energy bills…