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OSW Report |
| Agata Łoskot-Strachota
The European Commission brought up the issue in the "Energy 2020 - A strategy for competitive, sustainable and secure energy" and questions about the most important directions, goals and tools of the external energy policy are the subject…
Analyses |
| Lucie Szymanowska
The image of this presidency has been seriously tarnished at its very onset when a wave of international criticism attacked Hungary in connection with the new media act adopted by the Hungarian parliament dominated by representatives of…
Analyses |
From 1 January Slovak central and local government agencies and other budget-financed entities began having to publish any contracts they have concluded in an online database. This step, made as part of the governmental anti-corruption…
Analyses |
The Chinese deputy prime minister, Chin Li Keqiang, was discussing the condition of mutual economic relations with key German politicians and representatives of business circles during his visit to Germany on 6–8 January. Contracts worth…
Analyses |
The euro became the official currency in Estonia on 1 January. The introduction of the common currency, which became possible owing to a policy of sharp budget cuts, crowns the difficult economic reforms and symbolically closes the process…
Analyses |
The Association for International Co-operation (GIZ), a new organisation in charge of implementing the development policy, was established on 1 January as a result of three previously operating agencies being merged by the German…
Analyses |
Following the Serbian government’s obligations towards the European Union, the company, Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS), which is controlled by the Russian corporation Gazpromneft, on 1 January lost its position as the sole supplier of oil…
Analyses |
| Wojciech Konończuk
The sentence passed on the former heads of Yukos shows the determination of part of the ruling elite, led by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, to maintain Russia’s current political-economic system.
Analyses |
| Witold Rodkiewicz
On 30 December 2010, the Liberal Democratic Party (PLD), the Democratic Party (PD) and the Liberal Party (PL) concluded an agreement to renew the governing coalition, the Alliance for European Integration (AIE). This means that the…
Analyses |
1 January saw the start of the operation of the new Skovorodino-Daqing pipeline, which will export Russian crude oil onto the Chinese market. This quickly-built pipeline is the first route for the transmission of Russian raw materials to…