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A verdict on Italy’s Council presidency: Part I
This week, Italy hands over the presidency of the Council of Ministers to Latvia, after six months at the helm. In the first of a two-part appraisal of Italy’s presidency, European Voice reporters assess her achievements in domestic policy. Environment: Earlier this month, having presided for the last time over a meeting of the environment...
What a European gas market might mean
The European energy landscape has changed markedly in 2014. What was unimaginable in 2013 has become possible: Russia might stop gas supplies to European Union countries; the EU might survive the winter without Russian gas; Ukraine might refrain from importing gas from Russia and reform its gas sector; South Stream might be shelved and Russia...
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[Ticker] Russian banks appeal against EU sanctions
Three major Russian banks have filed an appeal to the European Court of Justice against EU sanctions imposed on them in response to Moscow’s role in the Ukraine crisis. Russian media reports. Russia’s two biggest lenders, Sberbank and VTB, and the country’s foreign development bank, Vnesheconombank (VEB) filed the claim....
[Ticker] Ukraine peace talks start in difficult context
Ukraine, Russia, and Russia-controlled separatists are holding peace talks in Minsk. But the same day Ukraine’s parliament ended the country’s non-aligned status with a view to future Nato membership. Meanwhile, Russian TV broadcast an interview with a Ukrainian “witness”, who said a Ukrainian jet, not a rebel rocket,...
Ukraine quits “non-aligned” status : ‘What’s the price of the “development delay”’?
The Ukrainian Parliament voted on 23 December the abolition of the “non-aligned” status of Ukraine, reports Den. According to the Kiev daily, the law — approved by 303 MPs over 445 and supported by president Petro Poroshenko — “establishes ‘Ukraine’s integration into European political, economic, legal space with the purpose of gaining...
Ukraine parliament votes to join NATO, EU
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51713894.jpg Ukraine’s parliament has voted to abandon the country’s neutral “non-bloc” status and set membership in NATO and the European Union as a goal, a move immediately denounced by Russia as “unfriendly.” The legislative amendment submitted by President Petro Poroshenko was...
[Ticker] New Ukraine peace talks in Minsk this week
Ukrainian president Poroshenko says a fresh round of peace talks with pro-Russian rebels will take place in Minsk this week. He spoke after telephone talks with his French, Russian, and German counterparts. German chancellor Merkel “noted with satisfaction that the warring parties have generally enforced the ceasefire in past days.”...
Nazarbayev says Ukraine conflict is ‘nonsense’, offers coal
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51713650.jpg Kazakhstan’s president says the conflict in eastern Ukraine is “nonsense” and is calling on Russia and Ukraine to find a way to resolve it. Nursultan Nazarbayev’s comments Monday, after a meeting in Kiev with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, could carry weight because Kazakhstan is...
The South Stream debacle: Russia does not expect financial claims
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51685390.jpg Russia is discussing legal issues with some of its partners over the scrapped South Stream gas pipeline project but financial claims are not expected, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told Kommersant newspaper on Monday. Russia abandoned the South Stream project, which was to supply gas to southern...
Europeans sceptical about Russia sanctions. Poll
Author(s): NEOnline | KT russia_sanctions.jpg Germans are more sceptical about EU sanctions against Russia over Ukraine than French or British citizens, according to a poll conducted by the UK firm, ICM Research in Germany, France and the United Kingdom in December. Over half of German citizens, 54 percent, believe that sanctions imposed by the...
