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| Konrad Popławski
A priority task for Germany is to restrain the unfavourable net balance of this country mainly by introducing a mechanism reducing Germany’s financial obligations and by scaling down the expenses on the Cohesion Policy, which no longer…
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| Iwona Wiśniewska
A ban on imports – an instrument often employed by Russia – is being used not only for the protection of domestic consumers but above all as a tool of foreign policy.
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The Bundesrat accepted a controversial law on 11 July introducing new car energy consumption labelling passed by the Bundestag, which will come into force in Germany on 1 October. The new classification is to introduce car CO2 emission…
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The deadline for Bulgaria to conclude a new long-term gas supply contract with Russia, which was set last year as a result of arrangements between Gazprom and Bulgargaz, expired on 1 July. The lack of a new contract and Sofia’s intensive…
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The first meeting of a working group consisting of representatives of all parliamentary groupings in the Bundestag, which is to deal with the liberalisation of the visa regime with Russia, was held on 29 June. This group was created partly…
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Lithuania’s Seimas adopted an amended gas law on 30 June. Lietuvos Dujos (LD), the largest wholesale supplier and the monopoly on the Lithuanian gas distribution market, will be split into individual companies dealing with gas transport…
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The Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania on 11 July passed a non-appealable verdict in the dispute over information plates in Polish and Russian located in public places in the Vilnius Region. The local government of the Vilnius…
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On 7 July Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, voted in a new pension system law which does not change the present pension system – based on what is called the ‘solidarity of generations’, i.e. disbursing pensions from the fund’s current…
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On 6 July in Georgia a regulation which strengthens the legal status of faith-based groups other than the Georgian Orthodox Church (GOC) came into force. The new law was adopted by parliament against the unanimous opposition of the GOC,…
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In 2010 Gazprom recorded better results than in 2009 during the crisis but it did not manage to rebuild its position in Europe, as is revealed in the report for 2010 approved on 30 June by its annual General Shareholders Meeting. The data…