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RosUkrEnergo (RUE), a former Russian/Ukrainian intermediary company engaged in gas export, has reached an agreement with Naftogaz Ukraine and Gazprom on the adjudication by a court of arbitration in Stockholm, which requires Naftogaz to…
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On 10 December, an illegal protest by around a thousand people took place in Baku in front of the headquarters of the Ministry of Education against the de facto ban on wearing the hijab in schools. The immediate cause of the demonstration…
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On 10 December, the US Congress ratified an agreement on civilian nuclear cooperation with Russia (the so-called 123 Agreement), which opens up the American market to the Russian nuclear industry. Thus, after a failed attempt to cooperate…
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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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| Konrad Popławski
The recently passed budget law indicates that the federal government intends to consolidate the budget primarily by increasing revenue while only slightly reducing public spending.
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Serbia received a membership questionnaire from the European Commission on 24 November. The Serbian government wants to be granted candidate status in the second half of 2011. For this reason it has announced that it will return the…
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On 28 November, leaders of the Green Party in Hamburg decided to withdraw from the coalition with the CDU. This coalition was established in 2008. The CDU/Green Party government was the only government of this kind at the federal state…
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On 23 November, the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade announced that the contract enabling supplies of additional quantities of oil coming from the Western direction had been extended until 2015. The Czech transport network operator…
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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…