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  • Yatsenyuk Resigns: The Shift in Ukrainian Politics

    UKRAINE, 2016/06/11 Next facing months of criticism for the slow pace of reforms and the abysmal national of the economy, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced his resignation last Sunday in a televised address. The decision came next he narrowly survived a no-confidence vote in his government and sets the stage for President Petro Poroshenko to consolidate power and install his close ally, Volodymr Groysman, a member of his own party, as the next prime minister.

  • Presidential Elections in Belarus: Why the West Should Not Hold Its Breath

    BELARUS, 2015/09/04 On 1 September the Central Elections Committee of Belarus announced that four presidential candidates had submitted enough signatures to run in elections scheduled for 11 October this year. Although few question the outcome of this elections and the official victory of the incumbent President Alexander Lukashenka, the elections take place in a very different geopolitical context. In the 2010 presidential elections, the authorities saw the Belarusian opposition as the major threat and crushed protests, putting several presidential candidates in jail. Next the recent events in Ukraine the authorities seem to view Russia as a additional critical threat although they would not publicly admit it.

  • Romanian PM Tipped To Win Presidential Poll

    ROMANIA, 2014/10/17 Romania’s leftist Prime Minister Victor Ponta is likely to win the presidential elections on November 2, according to a recent survey. Ponta, as well leader of the ruling Social Democratic Party, PSD, will win around 40 % of the votes in the initial round, a poll conducted by the INSCOP Research polling agency showed on Wednesday. Klaus Iohannis, the candidate of the opposition Christian-Liberal Alliance, ACL, is likely to win about 30 % of the votes in the initial round. If Ponta faces Iohannis in the second round, on November 16, the former is likely to win the vote with just over 53 %, the same poll showed.

  • Czech parliament for a vote of confidence in one month

    CZECH, 2013/07/28 The new Czech government sworn in earlier this month could alter the country's position on several EU topics. In recent years, the Czech republic has been an ally of the United Kingdom in several high-profile political punch-ups in Brussels. For one, its previous government refused to join the "fiscal compact" on EU budget discipline.  The centre-right former PM, Petr Necas, was also opposed to taking the country into the euro and opposed to joining the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) on EU banks. We all know what the former president, Vaclav Klaus, thought about the EU.  But the new centre-left government of PM Jiri Rusnok is very close to the country's new President, Milos Zeman, who advocates swift euro-adoption. Rusnok's cabinet also contains several pro-EU ministers, at least when measured by Czech standards.

  • The Arctic eight-member Council has accepted China and India as ‘observer states’

    CHINA, 2013/05/17 The legally-binding cooperation transaction is aimed at improving procedures in response to oil spills. Canada Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq, who started a two-year mandate as chair of the council, said Ottawa is as well launching marine pollution prevention work as part of efforts to mitigating impacts in the Arctic region. New emerging powers including China and India have been accepted as “observer” states in the eight-nation Arctic Council and a new deal was signed to improve oil spill response to safeguard the fragile eco-system of the region, as Canada begun its chairmanship.

  • Czechs are voting in a new President

    CZECH, 2013/01/12 Czechs are voting in a new President over the weekend as the incumbent and eurosceptic Vaclav Klaus prepares to step down. The voting will take place on Friday and Saturday with two former prime ministers in the running. Klaus famously delayed signing the Lisbon Treaty in 2009.

  • Bulgarian Ex-Presidents Slam Macedonia Blockade

    BULGARIA, 2013/01/07 The three ex-Presidents made their criticisms known following Tuesday's decision of the European Council for General Affairs. This adopted a Bulgarian proposal tabled by Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov, delaying giving a start date for talks with Macedonia. The decision is expected to be confirmed by the European Council meeting in Brussels.

  • Jose Manuel Barroso, the chief of the European Commission,

    MOLDOVA, 2013/01/02 Jose Manuel Barroso, the chief of the European Commission, followed by Poland President Bronislaw Komorowski on Monday (December 4th), showed clear support for Moldova's European aspirations and encouraged the former Soviet republic's drive for reforms, analysts and officials in Chisinau said.

  • 100 days of the new Russian government 2012-09-24

    RUSSIA, 2012/09/24 更多     100 days of the new Russian government The first 100 days of the new Russian government include some concrete steps in the ambitious privatisation programme announced for the period 2012 to 2014, fitting with the country's WTO liberalisation strategy. Especially opportune for both local and overseas traders is the impending reform and privatisation of the Russian Post, for a lot of years a national monopoly.

  • Romania defies European Commission 2012-07-22

    ROMANIA, 2012/07/22
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