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| Joanna Hyndle-Hussein, Paweł Siarkiewicz
Political intrigue accompanying the election of a new president foreshadows an increasing rivalry on the Latvian political scene before the expected early parliamentary elections.
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The right-wing coalition VMRO-DPMNE led by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski won the early parliamentary elections held on 5 June and is likely to form a majority government with its present coalition partner, the Democratic Union for…
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On 31 May, Dacian Cioloş, the EU Agriculture Commissioner, criticised the German emergency management in the context of the spreading of E. coli (EHEC) bacteria in Germany. The local health ministry in Hamburg wrongly identified Spanish…
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The Bulgarian parliament on 1 June approved the Energy Strategy until 2020 prepared by the centre-right government led by Boyko Borisov. The form in which the document has been prepared indicates that Sofia wants to improve the country’s…
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| Artur Ciechanowicz
German Chancellor Angela Merkel during her visit on 6–7 June to the USA received in Washington, D.C. the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. This is the highest US civilian award. The meeting was also used as an…
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| Artur Ciechanowicz
The first German-Indian governmental consultations took place on 31 May in New Delhi. The German delegation consisting of 140 people included the ministers for defence, internal affairs, the environment and education as well as company…
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| Wojciech Górecki
On May 29, at a hospital in Moscow, the President of separatist Abkhazia Sergei Bagapsh died. His duties were assumed by Vice-President Alyksandr Ankvab, who should announce new elections during the next three months. It should be…
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On 31 May, the first Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Andriy Kluyev visited Brussels, during which a compromise was reached on one of the final disagreements (concerning the energy sector) on a deep and comprehensive free trade area (FTA…
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On the night of 25-26 May in Tbilisi, police broke up a group who had gathered by the Parliament building, demanding the resignation of President Mikheil Saakashvili. The excessive brutality attributed to the police led to a wave of…
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On 25 May, Gazprom CEO Aleksei Miller announced that after the Nord Stream pipeline is activated, the transit of Russian gas through Ukrainian territory will fall by around 20 billion m³ per year. This statement should be regarded as an…