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Norbert Röttgen (CDU), the minister for environmental protection in the federal government, announced in an interview for the Westfälische Nachrichten newspaper on 29 July that an expert survey on the environmental impact of shale gas…
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A gas interconnector between Croatia and Hungary was put into operation on 3 August. This is the first completed element of the North-South gas corridor, which envisages connecting the Świnoujście LNG terminal in Poland via the Czech…
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On 27 July, the German Ministry of Economics held a meeting with representatives of business circles to discuss the possibilities of investing in Greece and helping this country overcome the economic crisis. The meeting fits in with the…
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| Marta Jaroszewicz, Sławomir Matuszak, Tadeusz A Olszański
The former prime minister’s arrest is a sign of the intensifying political dispute in Ukraine between the ruling camp and Tymoshenko’s supporters before next year's parliamentary elections. The trial is political in nature; its aim is to…
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On 31 July, President Dmitri Medvedev visited the Kaliningrad region to participate in the celebrations honouring the Russian Navy, and met the regional governor Nikolai Tsukanov. The President declared his readiness to support the region’…
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On 2 August, President Viktor Yanukovych signed a law introducing a simplified mechanism for the registration of land ownership, and Ukraine’s parliament was sent a draft law concerning the market for agricultural land, which will form the…
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On 3 August, President Dmitri Medvedev accepted the government’s revised programme to privatise Russian enterprises. The current plan is intended to reduce the state’s presence in the Russian economy even further than originally planned,…
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On 27 July, the Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan paid a visit to Baku. Despite the elaborate ceremonial, the visit did not bring about any concrete results; first of all, contrary to previous announcements, no agreement was…
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On 4 August, a leading Belarusian human rights activist, Ales Byalatski, was arrested on suspicion of concealing income. The Belarusian tax authorities based their allegations on data from an account in a Lithuanian bank belonging to…
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| Justyna Gotkowska
On 18-19 July the 13th German-Russian intergovernmental consultations were held in Hanover. A dozenor so ministers from each country participated in the consultations along with Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Dmitri Medvedev.