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Russia, Ukraine strike gas deal
Russia has agreed to resume gas supplies to Ukraine after a gap of four and a half months under an agreement that will last through this winter. Russia cut off gas supplies to Ukraine in mid-June in a dispute ostensibly over gas prices and debts but viewed by Ukrainians as another front in Russia’s military and political pressure in...
Ukraine gas deal ‘within reach’
Thirteen and a half hours of three-way talks intended to ensure that Ukrainians receive gas supplies through the winter ended at 4am this morning in Brussels with no agreement between Russia and Ukraine, with the head of Russia’s gas giant Gazprom suggesting that the keys to a solution now lie principally in the hands of the European Union....
Another winter of discontent: talks on Russian gas for Ukraine deadlocked
Author(s): h_51640824.jpg Ukraine might need to brace itself for a long, cold winter, after’s talks in Brussels to unblock deliveries of Russian gas were deadlocked on Thursday, as the Russian side demanded a firm commitment from the EU to cover Kiev’s bill. EU-hosted talks were adjourned after dragging on until 4 AM. They should...
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[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:...
Poroshenko acts quickly to form coalition after election victory
The party of Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has moved swiftly in the wake of parliamentary elections on Sunday (26 October) to form a coalition government with parties that support reforms intended to bring Ukraine closer to the European Union. The Petro Poroshenko Bloc, which gained the largest number of seats in the Verkhovna Rada,...
An end to the austerity era?
Something is missing from the debate between Brussels, Paris and Rome over France’s budget deficit and Italy’s debt mountain. The European Commission, backed by Germany and many other national capitals, has so far dug in behind the rules of the stability and growth pact (SGP) and insisted that French deficit and Italian debt should be...
Putin does think about partitioning Ukraine
Anyone ill-informed enough to think that Vladimir Putin is punctiliously polite is an unlikely oracle on European security matters. The Russian leader’s conversational repertoire is a notorious mix of bizarre theories, foul language, macho threats and macabre jokes. So I was not surprised by the recent article by Ben Judah in Politico,...
[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:...
