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The MAKS-2011 International Aviation & Space Salon, which was held on 16-21 August in Zhukovsky near Moscow, has brought contracts worth at least US$10 billion. For the first time in the show’s 18-year history, these contracts are…
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On 24 August the North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il met President Dmitri Medvedev in Ulan-Ude (Buryatia). The talks concerned trilateral infrastructure projects on the Korean peninsula (with South Korea’s participation), and the resumption…
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On 16 August, the Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Strong Ukraine party, Serhiy Tyhipko, together with the Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, announced that his party would join the ruling Party of Regions. This merger of both parties…
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| Jakub Groszkowski
The negative experiences with renewable energy sources have made the Czech Republic strengthen its stance on its energy and climate policy. The use of coal deposits, the development of the nuclear power sector and the diversification of…
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A number of proposals for the stabilisation of the eurozone were presented in effect of the meeting of German Chancellor Angela Merkel with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on 16 August in Paris. The two leaders proposed for example the…
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| Artur Ciechanowicz
The foreign ministers of Germany and Egypt met at consultations on 12 August in Berlin. Mohamed Kamel Amr, the new foreign minister of Egypt, went on his first foreign visit to Turkey and Germany. This is an effect of Berlin’s active…
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Romania wants to establish closer economic co-operation with China as a consequence of its serious difficulties in obtaining Western financial backing for a number of infrastructural projects of strategic significance for Bucharest. The…
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A report on the expenses of withdrawing from the use of nuclear energy in Germany, commissioned by the Federal Ministry of the Economy and developed by three independent research institutes, was published on 10 August. According to the…
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Angela Merkel made official visits to Croatia and Serbia on 22–23 August. The main subject was the two countries’ EU integration and the intensification of economic co-operation with Germany. The German chancellor emphasised that…
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A debate on the participation of the Bundeswehr soldiers in the NATO-led operation in Libya is taking place in Germany. What has given rise to the strongest criticism is the decision on the engagement of German soldiers without consulting…