Contents tagged with EU
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Naftogaz head: Ukraine needs a European company to manage its gas transport system
To keep its status as a transit country, Ukraine needs to get a European company to manage its natural gas transportation system, the head of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine, Andriy Kobolyev proposed.
"The ultimate goal of the process of creating a separate GTS operator is to involve a European company... that has its own interests. In fact we want to share a part of our business to make them help us guarantee that transit through the territory of Ukraine will remain after 2019," he said on Channel 5 …
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Mogherini: Ukraine is among Europe's priorities for 2017
One of the priorities in the work of the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, in 2017 will be continuing the efforts towards reforms in Ukraine and the cooperation with the countries of the Eastern Partnership (EaP), as stated in the list of objectives and priorities of the head of the European diplomacy for the year, which was posted on her website.
It is noted that the past year was a year of constant work in support of the …
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Serbian Foreign Minister says Kosovo's aspiration to join the UN is Belgrade’s challenge of the year
The desire of the Republic of Kosovo to become a member of the United Nations, with the support of the West and several Islamic countries, will become one of the biggest challenges in the foreign policy of Belgrade in 2017. This was said on January 1 in by Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić during an interview with Beta news agency.
"It is expected that Kosovo will submit its application for joining again. We will once again be engaged in a struggle at a disadvantage, while they will advance, …
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Ukraine increased export of Christmas toys
During 2016, Ukraine increased its export of New Year’s toys and decorations, opened a number of new markets, and also reduced trade levels of these goods with Russia, as was stated by a Sales Representative of Ukraine, Nataliya Mykolska, in her column published in Yevropeyska Pravda.
"Our toys are available in 25 countries and their exports are growing. For the last 10 months of this year, we have exported goods worth $4.5 million, while exports during the same period last year grew at only 16 …
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Ukraine received 55 million Euros from the European Union
Ukraine received the second and final tranche of financial assistance from the European Union that amounts to 55,125,000 Euros. The first tranche of 250 million Euros was allocated in July 2014.
"This assistance means the recognition of the reforms by the EU," the Finance Ministry of Ukraine reported.
The Ministry stressed that the funds were provided to Ukraine after the European Commission assessed the implementation of reforms in the areas of combating corruption, improving public …
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Polish gas company says agreement between European Commission and Gazprom has been suspended
The Polish national gas operator PGNiG said that the new agreement between the European Commission and the Russian company Gazprom on the use of the OPAL gas pipeline is suspended as of Tuesday, December 27th. This is due to the fact that the European Court in Luxembourg accepted the lawsuit, filed by PGNiG, against Brussels’ new treaty with Moscow. Thus, the new agreement will be frozen until a court in Luxembourg decides on the case.
The European Court of Justice has not yet commented on the …
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US Treasury Department expanded sanctions on Russia
The US expanded sanctions against Russia imposed in relation to the Crimean Peninsula and to Moscow's policy in the east of Ukraine. According to a report published on Tuesday, December 20th, on the website of the US Treasury, seven more individuals and more than 20 companies were included in the sanctions list.
Individuals who were included on the sanctions list were businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, who has close business ties with the Russian Ministry of Defense and the managers of the banks …
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Poland appealed the European Court’s decision to increase Gazprom’s pipeline access
The Polish government appealed to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg due to the decision to increase access of Gazprom to the key gas pipeline OPAL, which links Nord Stream with Germany. The European Commission adopted this decision in late October, Polskie Radio reported on December 18, with reference to the official representative of Polish Foreign Ministry, Joanna Wajda.
The decision of Brussels was heavily criticized by Warsaw. The Polish administration stated that it recognizes a …
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Ukraine signed cross-border cooperation agreements with four EU countries
During the third meeting of the EU-Ukraine Association Council, Ukraine signed cross-border cooperation agreements with four neighboring countries of the EU, Evropeyskaya Pravda reported.
Stepan Kubiv, who is both the First Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine, signed the draft agreement on behalf of the Ukrainian side, and the European Commission's Director General for the European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Christian …
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EU security services collectively strive to prevent hackers from influencing elections
On the 18th of December, the German President of the Federal Office for Security and Information Technology (BSI), Arne Schoenbohm, stated in an interview with Welt am Sonntag that the security services of European countries exchange information in order to prevent the intervention of hackers into elections that will take place in a number of EU Member States in 2017.
The cyberattack on the IT systems of the Bundestag in Spring 2015, and an attempt to hack party servers, have given rise to a …