Contents tagged with EU

  • EU provides Ukraine with 250 million euros annually

    The European Union is the largest bilateral donor to Ukraine and provides the country with approximately EUR 250 million annually, the head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine, Hugues Mingarelli, stated in his welcoming speech. According to the French diplomat, the European Union and Ukraine maintain a close and special relationship.

    “The relations between Ukraine and the European Union have become much stronger after signing and launching the ambitious EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, which …

  • EU extends sanctions against Russia

    The European Union has extended sanctions against Russia because of the annexation of the Crimea in 2014 for another 6 months. This was reported by Radio Liberty correspondent in Brussels Rikard Jozwiak on Twitter on Wednesday, September 7th. This decision affects 146 people and 37 legal entities from Russia, Ukraine, and the occupied Crimea.

    According to the correspondent of 112 Ukraine TV channel in Brussels, this decision should be published before September 15th, when the term of the …

  • Lavrov: The US is taking advantage of the poor relations between Russia and the EU to export its own gas to Europe

    The Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, speaking at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, said that the United States is taking advantage of the deterioration of relations between the European Union and Russia in order to impose its liquefied gas on Europe. The full text of the statement can be found on the Ministry website.

    According to Lavrov, the European Union is driven by the desire to politicize the problems related to the delivery of Russian gas to …

  • EU to extend sanctions against 146 Russian individuals

    EU ambassadors will make a decision about extending targeted sanctions against Russian citizens involved in the violation of Ukrainian territorial integrity. In particular, 146 people and 37 companies could have their visas restricted and accounts frozen.

    As Radio Svoboda reports, citing its own sources in the EU, a decision about extending the sanctions for another six months is expected to be adopted without much discussion by September 15. The parties in question include companies in the …

  • Ukrainian Ambassador to France: The West does not want to recognize the presence of Russian troops in the Donbas

    France, Germany and the United States do not acknowledge the fact of the presence of the Russian troops in the Donbass region. In his article for Apostrophe news portal, Ambassador Oleh Shamshur claims that these countries hope for a return to the prewar order of things.

    According to Shamshur, who is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to France, Western countries realize that Russian troops are in the Donbas region but this position is not public and will not be made …

  • Naftogaz of Ukraine purchases gas from the EU at a lower price than from Russia

    Yuriy Vitrenko, the Director of Business Development at Naftogaz of Ukraine, reported on Facebook that the company is buying gas from the European Union at a lower price than from Russian gas giant Gazprom.

    “Now the price of European gas is already significantly lower than the $185 per thousand cubic meters charged by Gazprom,” he noted.

    The press-service of Naftogaz, a national joint-stock company of Ukraine, reported that the contract price announced by Gazprom for Ukraine for the third …

  • Biden: Nord Stream 2 is bad for Europe

    The Vice-President of the USA, Joe Biden, said that Washington is convinced that the construction of the Russian gas pipeline project "Nord Stream 2" is a bad thing for Europe.

    "This will allow Russia to destabilize Ukraine,” Biden said on the 25th of August, 2016 in Stockholm, adding that Europe needs to diversify its sources of gas supply. "No country should use energy as a weapon," Biden said appealing to Russia.

    Nord Stream 2 is a gas pipeline under construction that is intended to …

  • WTO rules against Russia on pork ban

    The World Trade Organization has supported the EU in the another trade dispute with Russia, RBC reports.

    The panel of arbitrators at the WTO ruled that Russia’s ban on importing European pork is contrary to the WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.

    In early, 2014 Russia imposed a ban on imports of live pigs and pig products from all EU countries, referring to the outbreak of African swine fever in Lithuania and Poland.

    The WTO concluded that the ban on pork …

  • German MEP Michael Gahler: Ukraine should be given defensive weapons

    MEP of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), Michael Gahler, has said that Ukraine needs to be provided with intelligence equipment and defensive weapons due to the deteriorating situation in the Donbas, Radio Polsha reported.

    A similar opinion was expressed by the Chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs Elmar Brok. However, he warned that the supply of defensive weapons should be implemented in such a way that Russia would not consider it to be a violation …

  • WTO rules against Russia in favor of the EU

    The import dues imposed by the Russian Federation on some agricultural and industrial goods contradict the WTO rules

    The World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled against the Russian Federation (RF) in favor of the European Union as indicated in the published decision of the WTO, Deutsche Welle reports.

    This was the first such decision since Russia’s admission to the WTO.

    WTO arbitrators ascertained that the Russian import dues on some agricultural and industrial goods were contrary to the rules …