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During a meeting at the European Policy Centre think tank in Brussels, the EU Commissioner for Energy Günther Oettinger questioned the EU's policies towards Ukraine by saying, "There is no point in modernising the Ukrainian gas system if…
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| Lucie Szymanowska
Granting Hungarian citizenship to ethnic Hungarians living abroad is still a matter of dispute between Hungary and Slovakia but is unlikely to affect the development of co-operation in Central Europ.
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The Hungarian government revealed on 1 February that only 3.3% of those authorised submitted a declaration of their will to remain in the ‘second pillar’ of the pension system. This meets the expectations of Viktor Orban’s government,…
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German politicians were promoting a new concept of deeper co-operation between EU member states during the economic forum in Davos on 27–29 January. According to media reports, Chancellor Angela Merkel will present a ‘Competitiveness Pact…
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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on 25 January passed a resolution accusing Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hasim Thaci and his associates of war crimes and participation in an organised crime group. This has undermined…
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On 25 January, Minister of Economy Rainer Brüderle closed operation of the Deutschlandfonds. This fund, with assets worth 115 billion euros, was created in March 2009 to support with loans and guarantees firms which had suffered as a…
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The project of the Central European energy corridor, North-South, covering the development of the gas transport infrastructure between the planned LNG terminals in Świnoujście, Poland and on the Croatian island of Krk, was discussed during…
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On 28 January, the Bundestag acting upon a government motion elected Roland Jahn head of the Federal Commission for the Stasi Archives (BStU), also referred to as the Gauck Office. This former East German dissident will on 14 March…
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| Jadwiga Rogoża, Piotr Żochowski
The rescue action after the attack exposed the weaknesses of the institutions responsible for ensuring the security of the state; this has brought forth hitherto unprecedented criticism from President Dmitri Medvedev. The President's…
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| Agata Wierzbowska-Miazga
The Russian government have no proper integration policy for minorities. Instead, they have been attempting to counteract the growing symptoms of nationalism by limiting the number of migrants (both internal and external).