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No cold winter for EU citizens, Commission says
The European Union’s energy system is now flexible enough to ensure that European homes would remain heated throughout a loss of supplies of Russian gas if the EU’s member states co-operate fully, the European Commission has concluded. The Commission’s study, which it published on Thursday (16 October), suggests a substantial...
Poroshenko heading for second victory in Ukraine
Ukrainians will go to the polls on Sunday (26 October) for a second time this year in parliamentary elections that are expected to give the country’s new leaders a stronger hand as they embark on wider-ranging political and economic reforms. Polls leave little doubt that the Party of Petro Poroshenko – formed by and named after the...
Bernd Lange – driving force
Many in the European Parliament have for weeks been impatiently waiting for the hearings of the European commissioners-designate to end and for normal business to resume. One MEP, though, has been rushing around ever since this Parliament was formed in July: Bernd Lange, the German socialist who now heads the Parliament’s trade – INTA –...
Still no Russia gas deal as Europe heads into winter
With temperatures already near freezing in eastern Europe, Ukraine will hold elections on Sunday amid uncertainty on Russian gas supplies. …read more Source:...
Tentative deal between Ukraine, Russia on gas
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_51627349.jpg EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger has announced that substantial progress was reached in today’s talks between representatives of Ukraine and Russia on gas supplies in Brussels. Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak and his Ukrainian counterpart, Yuri Prodan, met in Brussels on Tuesday (21...
[Ticker] Former Polish FM under fire over Ukraine remarks
Former Polish FM, now parliament speaker, Sikorski has been criticised in Warsaw for comments to Politico magazine that Russia offered Poland to partition Ukraine in 2008. He first said he “misunderstood” what was said at the Russia-Poland meeting, then that his “memory failed him” and the meeting never took place....
[Ticker] Congolese lawyer wins EU rights prize
Denis Mukwege, a Congolese doctor who specialises in treating rape victims and who set up a hospital in Bukavu, in the war-torn African state, has won the EP’s 2014 Sakharov prize of freedom of thought. Other finalists were jailed Azerbaijani activist Leyla Yunus and the Euromaidan movement in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Putin offered the partition of Ukraine in 2008 – a new Polish political earthquake
Author(s): Dan Alexe h_02106852.jpg A new earthquake in Polish politics is following the one back in June, when in leaked recordings Radoslaw Sikorski, now president of the Sejm, but then Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, was heard saying: “You know that Polish-American alliance is worth nothing. It’s even harmful, because it...
First the European Union now the European Court of Human Right: A new target of British ‘Sovereignism Creep’
In a move to reach out to UKIP voters and its own backbenchers, the UK Conservative Party has announced its will to adopt its own British Bill of Rights and Responsibilities and transform the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) into an advisory body, a plan which is likely to lead to the UK’s withdrawal from European Convention on Human...
EU strengthens sanctions against Syria
Author(s): NEOnline/GK syria_eu_position.jpg The European Union on Monday announced it was strengthening sanctions against Syria. According to an official statement, 211 people and 63 entities from the country will now be subject to EU sanctions. The legal act, including the names of the designated persons and entities, will be published in the...
