CoE sees Lutsenko pardon as breakthrough in Tymoshenko’s case
Author(s): Stanislava GaydazhievaThe Council of Europe (CoE) believes that the pardon of former Ukrainian interior minister Yuri Lutsenko could be a breakthrough in the case of ex-prime minister Yulia...
View ArticleStatoil, SOCAR to ink Caspian field contract today (13:00CET)
Author(s): Kostis Geropoulos Norway’s Statoil and State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) were expected to sign an agreement on the joint development of the Zafar-Mashal block in Azerbaijan’s section...
View ArticleStatoil, SOCAR agree to develop Caspian field
Author(s): Kostis Geropoulos BAKU - Norway’s Statoil and State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) signed an memorandum of understanding on the joint development of the Zafar-Mashal block in Azerbaijan’s...
View ArticleSerbia rejects EU-brokered Kosovo deal
Author(s): Karafillis Giannoulis Serbia's deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said his government will reject an EU-brokered deal for Kosovo and will ask for more negotiations with ethnic Albanian...
View ArticleBiH must implement the Sejdić-Finci judgement
Author(s): Eleni Stamatoukou Bosnia and Hercegovina has not yet implemented the Sejdić-Finci judgement. This lack of progress is deeply disappointing said Commissioner for Enlargement and European...
View Article13 people shot dead in Serbia
Author(s): Karafillis Giannoulis 13 people were shot dead by a man who went on rampage in a village outside the Serbian capital Belgrade. The 60-year-old man first shot his son and then went to another...
View ArticleGerman delegation to visit Bulgaria over Roma
Author(s): Stanislava GaydazhievaThe chairwoman of theGerman Green party, Claudia Roth, and the minister of integration of the Rheinland-Pfalz region, Irene Alt, will visit Bulgaria on 10 and 11 April....
View Article2012 a controversial year for the death penalty
Author(s): Stanislava GaydazhievaThe year 2012 saw 682 confirmed executions in 21 countries around the world, according to a newly released report by Amnesty International. There were 2 executions...
View ArticleBiH’s EU path would be frozen
Author(s): Eleni Stamatoukou“Bosnia and Herzegovina's EU path would be frozen” if the country does not implement the Sejdić and Finci ruling, European Commissioner for Enlargement Stefan Fule...
View ArticleTunisia recovers stolen money
Author(s): Eleni Stamatoukou A cheque amounting to $28.8 million was handed to Tunisia’s President Moncef Marzouki by the UN’s Ali bin Fetais al-Marri. These recovered money have been held abroad by...
View ArticleRyanair denies ‘slave contracts’
Author(s): Stanislava GaydazhievaRyanair boss Michael O'Leary rejected Thursday the accusations of two former Norwegian employees over inadequate work conditions. The women, who were not employed...
View ArticleMitschek: Nabucco West, South Stream Not At Odds
Author(s): Kostis Geropoulos BAKU - There is no real direct competition between Nabucco West and South Stream even after Gazprom decided to abandon the Russian-backed project's southern branch, from...
View ArticleWater, energy can cause serious conflict in Central Asia
Author(s): Kulpash Konyrova DUSHANBE - As part of his recent Central Asian tour, Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister Erlan Idrisov visited the capital of Tajikistan. In Dushanbe, he and his Tajik...
View ArticleYanukovych refuses to pardon Tymoshenko
On 11 April, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said former prime minister and opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko's pardon is impossible as long as her trials are under way. “I have repeatedly...
View ArticleICTY announces date for judgement in Prlić case
Author(s): Stanislava GaydazhievaThe trial chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) will pronounce itself in the case of the six high-level leaders of the Bosnian...
View ArticleHammarberg investigating human rights in Georgia
Author(s): Andy Carling Thomas Hammarberg, the EU’s special representative for Georgia will issue a report on human rights in the country in September. He has stressed that he is not going to decide on...
View ArticleEU gives Serbia a chance to start accession talks
Author(s): Eleni Stamatoukou The European Union gave Serbia a chance to start accession talks with the block on Tuesday. Two joint reports of the High Representative and the Commission on Serbia and...
View ArticleEstablishing the rule of law and promoting democracy in Georgia
Author(s): David Usupashvili Last October, Georgia experienced a stunning democratic transition to a new government. Expectations were high that the former Soviet republic would quickly improve its...
View ArticleSerbia and Kosovo reach historical but tentative agreement in Brussels
Author(s): NEOnline Serbia and Kosovo reached a historical agreement Friday that will permit them to normalise relations and set a path towards European Union membership.The agreement came after months...
View ArticleStavytsky: Ukraine could become gas exporter by 2025
Ukraine’s Energy and Coal Minister Eduard Stavytsky said his country could bring in more international majors to explore its hydrocarbon fields on production-sharing terms and become a net gas...
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