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In Moldova on 24 January, the European Commissioner for internal affairs, Cecilia Malmström, officially presented Prime Minister Vlad Filat with an Action Plan on visa liberalisation. The EU Commissioner’s visit is a symbolic expression of…
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During Uzbek President Islam Karimov’s visit to Brussels on 24 January, he met the highest representatives of the EU and NATO. This was the first visit by the Uzbek leader to EU and NATO headquarters since the massacre in Andijan in 2005,…
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| Marta Szpala
The clashes in Tirana are the culmination of the dispute between the ruling Democratic Party (PDSh) and the opposition party PSSh that has been ongoing since June 2009. Without the direct involvement of the international community,…
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On 25 January the Greek minister for investment Harris Pamboukis wrote a letter to the management of the Greek subsidiary of Siemens that demanded damages for obtaining contracts from Greek state-owned companies through bribes. The German…
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The Hungarian government received a letter from the president of the European Commission that included a question about Hungary's media package which came into force at the turn of 2010 and 2011. As the letter states, the EC has serious…
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The German Federation of Expellees (BdV) blocked the opening of the exhibition on expulsions organised by the radical NPD party. The exhibition that was to be opened to viewers on 22 January in Bernburg (Saxony-Anhalt) included materials…
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On 20 January the German company RWE, the French GDF Suez and the Spanish Iberdrola announced that they were pulling out of the project of the extension of the Cernavodă nuclear power plant. Thus the companies joined the Czech company ČEZ…
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UK Prime Minister David Cameron organised a meeting with the heads of the Nordic states' governments and the three heads of governments of the Baltic States (the ‘NB8’ – Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Lithuania, Latvia and…
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| Aleksandra Jarosiewicz
Although the launch of the corridor on the basis of Azeri gas is presently a near-certainty, it has not yet been established via which route nor under what conditions the gas will be transmitted into Europe. In practice, Azerbaijan will…
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| Wojciech Konończuk
On 14 January in London, the Russian state oil company Rosneft and Britain’s BP, one of the largest energy companies in the world, signed an agreement on the exchange of shares. At the same time, the parties agreed to establish a joint…