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EU projects dismal growth, urges investment
The EU commission has lowered growth forecasts, blaming the Ukraine and Middle East crises, while urging governments to do more to spur investment. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Hungary approves law that could allow South Stream
With 132 votes in favour and 35 against, the Hungarian parliament has approved a law that allows companies to build a gas pipeline without European approval. The move is seen as a way to approve the building of South Stream, a Russian gas pipeline to the EU that dodges Ukraine. …read more Source:...
EU and UN reject ‘farcical’ east Ukraine vote
The EU and the UN have rejected the outcome of “elections” in Ukraine rebel zones, but Russia and a handful of fringe MEPs gave their stamp of approval. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Dutch research team finds human remains at MH17 crash site
Dutch researchers Friday recovered human remains from the site in Ukraine where the MH17 crashed in July, athough the team has limited access to the site. “One day it is relatively quiet, the next the area is on the front line and sees heavy fighting”, prime minister Rutte said. …read more Source:...
‘No one to stay cold’, as Russia and Ukraine clinch winter gas deal
Ukraine and Russia have agreed terms on winter gas supplies, but the deal looks unlikely to de-escalate the military conflict despite EU hopes. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Barroso not putting pressure on Kiev in gas talks, EU says
An EU spokeswoman said Thursday the fact the EU’s Barroso spoke “several times” with Ukraine’s Poroshenko during ongoing talks on gas supplies, but not with Russia’s Putin, doesn’t mean the EU is putting pressure on Kiev: “Nothing should be read into this that Ukraine is the obstacle to an...
[Ticker] Russia seeks EU-Ukraine gas payment contract
Russia has said if the EU and Ukraine sign a binding deal on how to pay for winter gas, then Russia will sign guarantees on supplies. “Once there’s money, there’s gas,” Russian energy minister Novak said, amid ongoing talks in Brussels. An EU spokeswoman said a deal is “very close”. …read more Source:...
EU-brokered gas talks bedevilled by ‘lack of trust’
Negotiators are struggling to clinch a deal on winter gas supplies via Ukraine, with Kiev saying chances are “pretty high”, but complaining of “lack of trust”. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Barroso says EU enlargement contained Russia
Outgoing EU commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso Wednesday defended EU enlargement to the east in the mid-2002s saying that without it, “we would not probably be discussing only about Ukraine. We would probably be discussing now about Bulgaria, or about the Baltic states,” he said in reference to Russia. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Fifa defends plan to hold 2018 football cup in Russia
Fifa chief Blatter, in Moscow Tuesday unveiling the logo for Russia’s 2018 World Cup, criticised calls to boycott the event. He told RT: “We are not in politics. We are in sports”. A World Cup 2018 map projected onto the Bolshoi theatre in Moscow showed Crimea as part of Russia. …read more Source:...
