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Analyses |
| Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
On 8 February, the European Court of Auditors published an audit report on the shut down nuclear power plants in Bulgaria (Kozloduy), Lithuania (Ignalina) and Slovakia (Bohunice). It revealed a significant delay in the EU-funded process…
Analyses |
| Tomasz Dąborowski
Since the beginning of February, there have been serious difficulties in the western Balkan countries (except Croatia), Romania and Bulgaria in meeting the demand for electricity. The root of this problem is the persistence of very low…
Analyses |
| Marta Szpala
On 10 February, almost a year and a half after the parliamentary election, a new central government was formed in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The Council of Ministers of BiH, consisting of ten members, will be led by a Bosnian Croat,…
Analyses |
| Marta Szpala
On 14–15 February, the local government in the four communes located in northern Kosovo next to the border with Serbia held a referendum. These communes are densely populated by ethnic Serbs. More than 35,000 people authorised to vote…
Analyses |
| Anna Kwiatkowska, Konrad Popławski
On 8 February at the session of the Commission for European Union, Michael Link (FDP), secretary of state at the Foreign Ministry, acting on behalf of the German government ensured that the fiscal pact agreed on 30 January was still only…
Analyses |
| Wojciech Górecki
On 9 February Alla Dzhioyeva, the leading opposition activist in the separatist republic of South Ossetia, was severely beaten by security forces who broke into her headquarters. A day earlier, the local parliament passed an amendment to…
Analyses |
| Rafał Sadowski
On 9 February, the European Commission presented reports evaluating the progress of Moldova and Ukraine in implementing action plans for visa liberalisation with the European Union. This implementation is divided into two phases: (1)…
Analyses |
| Tomasz Dąborowski
Emil Boc stepped down as prime minister of Romania on 6 February. The official reason for his decision was the desire to reduce social tension resulting from budget cuts and the significant impoverishment of society.
Analyses |
| Justyna Gotkowska
The defence ministers of NATO member states decided on 2 February in Brussels that the command centre of the missile defence system would be located at the Headquarters Allied Air Command Ramstein, Germany. The German defence minister,…
Analyses |
| Konrad Popławski
The cyclic German-French intergovernmental consultations took place in Paris on 6 February. Among the issues Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy and ministers from both cabinets were discussing were: the situation in Syria and Iran, the…