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The legacy of the Iron Lady of Antitrust
Five years ago Neelie Kroes stumbled through her confirmation hearings in the European Parliament prior to becoming a European commissioner. The former Dutch transport minister and business executive...
View ArticleCould Ukraine boost EU energy security?
Gas disputes between Ukraine and Russia have damaged the EU’s energy security on three occasions over the past five years, most acutely in January 2009, when Russia cut supplies to Ukraine for two...
View ArticleWhat happens when they won’t play ball?
The European Commission’s long-awaited communication on EU energy security policy, published on 7 September, contains some good ideas, such as the obligation on member states to share information about...
View ArticleThe final lap
By April, we should know how the first major delivery of Caspian gas into Europe will be channelled. Will the long, large Nabucco pipeline carry the gas in 2017? Or will the gas – from the giant Shah...
View ArticleUkraine: getting out from underneath the bear?
The election of Viktor Yanukovych as president of Ukraine was expected to reinforce the historic cultural and political links between Kiev and Moscow. And for a time a real shift in Ukraine’s...
View ArticleSerbia and the EU: an uphill struggle
The European Union opened membership negotiations with Serbia on 21 January. The EU had agreed to formal negotiations on EU membership as a reward for Serbia’s agreement to normalise its trade and...
View ArticleTaking EU energy security seriously
Last Monday (16 June), the Russian energy giant Gazprom cut off its supply of gas to Ukraine for the third time in eight years. Günther Oettinger, the European commissioner for energy, had been seeking...
View ArticleIf Minsk fails, let Moscow pay
The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France, and Germany held a conference call last month to discuss the peace process in Eastern Ukraine. During their two-hour conversation, Presidents Putin, Poroshenko,...
View ArticleUkrainian innocent caught in Panama Papers web
KIEV — It’s been two months since the release of the Panama Papers sent shockwaves through governments and major financial institutions. The data dump of over 11.5 million files related to some 320,000...
View ArticleOCCRP is on weak ground with Petro Poroshenko offshore claims
Regarding Tom King’s letter to the editor “Our Panama Papers reporting on Petro Poroshenko was accurate and fair” (June 4): In our article, (“Ukrainian innocent caught in Panama Papers Web,” June 3) we...
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