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Analyses | | Paweł Siarkiewicz

Latvia Dombrovskis leads his third government the Russians are still in the opposition

The government has been formed by three parties: the centre-right Unity, the Reform Party led by the former president, Valdis Zatlers, and the nationalist All for Latvia. The new government is also supported by six independent MPs. The…
Analyses | | Jakub Groszkowski

Slovakia no more assertiveness in the European policy

The left-wing opposition, whose votes were needed to amend the constitution, forced the centre-right to seriously reduce the competences of the transitional government. It will not be able to take decisions in key issues concerning the…
Analyses | | Tomasz Dąborowski, Marta Szpala

Chinas interest in investing in South-Eastern Europe still growing

On 19 October the Chinese corporation China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group entered into an agreement for access to confidential information concerning the development of the Cernavoda nuclear power plant in Romania. During that same week,…
OSW Commentary | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz, Krzysztof Strachota

Nagorno-Karabakh – conflict unfreezing

The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh poses the greatest challenge to the security and stability of the Southern Caucasus. Although a ceasefire has been in place and a peace process under way since 1994, there…
OSW Commentary | | Konrad Mazur

German companies strengthen their cooperation with Russian gas suppliers

It is possible that while establishing the details of cooperation between the Russian and German companies, Russia will try to put pressure on Germany to give up competing projects such as Nabucco. However, a well-diversified German energy…
Analyses | | Wojciech Konończuk, Tadeusz A Olszański

Completion of UkraineEU negotiations on DCFTA

On 20 October, the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Andriy Kluyev and the EU Commissioner for Trade Karel De Gucht announced that the parties have concluded negotiations on a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA). The…
Analyses | | Andrzej Sadecki, Marta Szpala

The Serbian-Hungarian dispute over the restitution law

The result of the talks between Bosnian President Boris Tadic and the leader of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM) Istvan Pasztor will be key to solving the dispute. If SVM reaches an agreement with the Serbian government, the…
Analyses | | Konrad Mazur

Germany wants to pursue its resources strategy in Mongolia

The German-Australian consortium BBM Operta and Macmahon signed a deal for extracting 15 million tonnes of coal annually, worth US$ 2 billion from the Tavan Tolgoi mine. Siemens concluded an agreement for the construction of gas turbines…
Analyses | | Marta Szpala

The enlargement policy Serbia in the spotlight

On 12 October the European Commission published annual reports regarding the state of preparation for EU accession in the Balkan countries and the assessment of Serbia's EU membership application. In the EC's opinion, the reforms…
Analyses | | Konrad Popławski

Germany satisfied by the ECs proposal of reform of the Common Agricultural Policy

On 12 October the European Commission (EC) presented a draft vision of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for 2014-2020. The EC's draft also included a proposal to slightly increase funding for farmers from the EU new member states with…