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Analyses |
| Aleksandra Jarosiewicz
During a visit by the Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Hui Liangyu on 12 September, the President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov revealed the start in August of regular gas exports to China. This process was preceded by the signing of an Uzbek-…
OSW Commentary |
| Tadeusz Iwański
After two and a half years under President Viktor Yanukovych and the Party of Regions, the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians are dissatisfied with the state the country’s economy is currently in and the direction it has been developing…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
On 12 September the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) in Karlsruhe ruled on motions aimed at blocking the ratification of the following three laws: the law establishing the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the law relating to the…
Analyses |
| Marta Szpala
On 10 September the International Civil Office (ICO) and the International Civil Representative (ICR) ended their missions. This translates into the formal closure of the period of Kosovo's “supervised independence”. However, in reality…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Sadecki
On 6t September, the conservative daily newspaper Magyar Nemzet posted a list of the International Monetary Fund’s terms for making a loan to Hungary. These include: a reduction of pensions, raising the retirement age, removing a banking…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
Russia's accession to the WTO on 23 August has placed Belarus’s economy in a difficult situation. On one hand, for the next few years Minsk will be unable to complete the negotiation process for joining this organisation. On the other, in…
Analyses |
| Szymon Kardaś
11 September saw the publication of a decree by President Vladimir Putin concerning “measures to protect the interests of Russia in respect to the conduct of foreign economic activity by Russian legal entities”. This document covers part-…
Analyses |
| Aleksandra Jarosiewicz
On 31 August, Hungary handed over to Azerbaijan the Azeri officer who had been sentenced to life imprisonment (with no right to a reprieve for thirty years) for killing an Armenian soldier with an axe in Budapest in 2004 during a course…
Analyses |
| Tomasz Dąborowski
On 27–29 August, Bulgaria entered into a number of important energy agreements. A contract for preparing the feasibility study for the project to develop the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant was signed with the US-Japanese corporation,…
Analyses |
| Artur Ciechanowicz
The second German-Chinese intergovernmental consultations took place on 30 August. Chancellor Angela Merkel was accompanied in Beijing by a delegation of more than one hundred people, including seven ministers, two secretaries of state and…