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      Energy Visions monthly newsletter – October 2015
      Oct06

      Energy Visions monthly newsletter – October 2015

      Welcome to the Energy Visions October newsletter, where we’ll be reviewing the biggest European energy developments of the past month, as well as some of the smaller news items you may have missed. Join the debate at www.politico.eu/energy-visions. To listen to the Energy Visions monthly podcast, click here. The October topic of the month...

      Pro-Russia rebels in Ukraine postpone elections
      Oct06

      Pro-Russia rebels in Ukraine postpone elections

      Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine today postponed local elections that the government had said were illegitimate and which, if they went ahead, could have derailed Ukraine’s fragile peace process. …read more Source: RTÉ...

      Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine postpone disputed elections
      Oct06

      Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine postpone disputed elections

      Ukraine’s pro-Russian insurgents in the separatist provinces of Lugansk and Donetsk said in a joint statement Tuesday that they were pushing back the elections in the east to next year in line with Western demands. …read more Source: France...

      Pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine postpone disputed elections
      Oct06

      Pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine postpone disputed elections

      KIEV (Reuters) – Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine said on Tuesday they had decided to postpone disputed local elections until next February instead of holding them this year as initially planned, separatist news agency DAN quoted the rebels’ envoys as saying. …read more Source:...

      Humans ‘worse for nature than world’s worst nuclear accident’
      Oct06

      Humans ‘worse for nature than world’s worst nuclear accident’

      Credits Mike Wood/Twitter Alt Text Wild boar Wildlife in Chernobyl exclusion zone is flourishing – due to the enforced absence of human habitation One-Minute Read Tuesday, October 6, 2015 – 12:55pm …read more Source: The...

      U.S.-Russia agreement on Syria might help on Ukraine: Finnish leader
      Oct05

      U.S.-Russia agreement on Syria might help on Ukraine: Finnish leader

      HELSINKI (Reuters) – If Russia and the United States were able to agree on ways of solving the Syrian crisis, this might help towards the two powers finding common ground on Ukraine, Finnish President Sauli Niinisto said on Monday. …read more Source:...

      Ukraine starts pull-back of tanks in east after ceasefire
      Oct05

      Ukraine starts pull-back of tanks in east after ceasefire

      President Petro Poroshenko has stressed Ukraine must regain control of its eastern border with Russia despite an apparent agreement to push back the implementation of a February peace deal into next year …read more Source: The...

      Rival Ukraine forces confirm pullback
      Oct05

      Rival Ukraine forces confirm pullback

      Officials confirm that Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian rebels are withdrawing tanks and other weapons from the line of contact. …read more Source:...

      [Ticker] Luxembourg PM meets Russian leaders
      Oct05

      [Ticker] Luxembourg PM meets Russian leaders

      Luxembourg PM Xavier Bettel will, on Monday, in Sochi, Russia, meet Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev to discuss EU-Russia sanctions, the Tass news agency reports. He will meet Russian president Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. Luxembourg currently chairs the EU presidency. EU economic sanctions on Russia are due to expire in January. …read more Source:...

      [Ticker] EU: Ukraine-Russia gas deal ‘will be signed’
      Oct05

      [Ticker] EU: Ukraine-Russia gas deal ‘will be signed’

      Following Russian energy minister Novak’s comments that the gas agreement with Ukraine and the EU doesn’t need a formal signature, EU Commission spokesperson Anna-Kaisa Itkonen said Monday, quoting French president Francois Hollande: “it will be signed”. The three sides agreed in September to only “initial” the...