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Analyses |
Some of the Belarusian opposition activists who were arrested after the post-election demonstration last 19 December have had the charges against them moderated, which significantly reduces the sentences they may face. The decision by the…
Analyses |
| Artur Ciechanowicz
Guido Westerwelle, deputy chancellor, foreign minister and president of the liberal party FDP – which is part of the government coalition – announced on 3 April that he would not run for re-election as the party’s president during its…
Analyses |
On 1 April, RWE submitted a complaint against the federal government’s decision passed as a consequence of the catastrophe in Fukushima. In response to this catastrophe the German government temporarily withheld its decision to extend the…
Analyses |
Since Lithuania’s Seimas had amended the education law thus narrowing the scope of education in the Polish language and significantly reducing the number of schools with Polish as the language of instruction, Poles from the Vilnius region…
Analyses |
The heads of government of Croatia and Slovenia and the president of Serbia signed a memorandum regarding economic co-operation in other countries on 1 April in Smederevo, Serbia. Another meeting of the leader of these post-Yugoslavian…
OSW Commentary |
| Kamil Kłysiński
Belarus’s financial condition has visibly worsened since the beginning of this year. The severe falls in the country’s foreign currency reserves and its shortage of foreign currency on the international market pose an increasing threat to…
OSW Studies |
| Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz
Does the European Union’s policy towards its Eastern neighbours have any chance of success? To what extent can the objective of ‘external integration’, i.e. the adoption of EU standards by its Easternneighbours, be achieved?
Analyses |
| Tadeusz A Olszański
In the short term, the bringing of charges against the former President of Ukraine, in connection with the abduction in 2000 of the well-known journalist Georgiy Gongadze, is intended to give a boost to the image of Ukraine’s current…
Analyses |
On 25 March, the upper chamber of the Uzbek Parliament adopted a package of amendments to the constitution, which implemented the principles contained in a paper by President Islam Karimov entitled ‘A concept for further deepening…
Analyses |
The National Commission for Energy Regulation has granted the Ukrhaz-Energo company (a joint venture between NAK Naftogaz and RosUkrEnergo) a five-year licence to sell up to 4.8 billion m³ of gas per year on the internal market. This is…