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On 9 December, President Viktor Yanukovych issued a decree reducing the number of ministries from 20 to 16, subordinating the ministries to the deputy prime ministers, and creating around a dozen new central offices. These changes in the…
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| Marta Szpala
The makeup of the new Kosovan parliament will not allow for the establishment of a stable government and is likely to prevent a normalisation of relations with Serbia.
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The commission receiving offers from strategic investors for the nuclear power plant building project on 3 December ended its operation without having selected a winner. One of the two offers received failed to meet the conditions, and the…
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The Hungarian parliament on 13 December adopted an amended pension act, which will enable the transfer of funds from the private to the state-controlled pillar of the pension system. This move will improve the condition of public finances…
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The management of the German construction company Hochtief announced on 10 December an increase of the company’s share capital by 10% through an issue of new shares. The additional shares were bought by Qatar’s state-controlled company…
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On 30 November Bulgaria’s National Electric Company (NEK) signed memoranda with Russia’s Rosatom, Finland’s Fortum and France’s Altran Technologies envisaging the establishment of a company for the building of the Belene nuclear power…
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On 10 December a resolution envisaging a gradual reduction of subsidies for hard and brown coal mines until 2018 was adopted at a meeting of the EU Council. Germany managed to push through provisions which were in line with its domestic…
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| Iwona Wiśniewska
The Russian model of cooperation between itself and the EU – based on an exchange of investments and the transfer of technology from the EU, in exchange for Russian raw materials – has limited prospects of actually coming to fruition.
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| Witold Rodkiewicz
The parliamentary elections in Moldova have not led to the overcoming of the political deadlock there. There are only extremely meagre chances for a broad political compromise which is required to elect a president and avoid early…
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At the end of November, Russia took action to block the supply of alternative oil deliveries to Belarus. On 25 November the Latvian-Russian company LatRosTrans, which owns the Ventspils-Navapolatsk pipeline, started emptying technological…