Nine of the 11 EU members from emerging Europe will be very happy with the posts they managed to procure in the new European Commission. Hungary and Romania, both handed...
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Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis believes that politicians from Central and Eastern Europe are missing out on Europe’s top jobs. How accurate is his...
The European Union finds itself at an historical turning point. In fact, we may well have entered the era of ‘European permacrisis’ – a permanent state of crisis and...
A new EU-Ukraine agreement focuses on the approximation of policy and regulatory mining frameworks, notably the application of environmental, social and governance (ESG)...
Russia’s energy minister, Aleksander Novak, has said that securing a gas deal with Ukraine should be part of a package that also includes the resolution of legal...
The long-awaited first round of negotiations between Ukrainian national gas holding Naftogaz and Russian energy giant Gazprom, mediated by the European Commission, has...
Natural gas reserves in the Ukraine’s underground storage facilities (USFs) reached 18.8 billion cubic metres on September 1, with gas imports amounting to close...
Russian energy minister Aleksander Novak has said that Russia has offered Ukraine the opportunity to extend an existing gas transit agreement to the end of 2021. “We...
According to a recent report by Slovenia’s national regulator, the Energy Agency, the country’s share of electricity coming from renewable sources increased to 21.8 per...
The highly anticipated European elections have brought mixed results for populist parties in Central and Eastern Europe. Romania’s ruling Social Democrats suffered a...
Russia’s deputy foreign minister Aleksander Pankin has said that his country’s government will not stop gas deliveries to Europe through Ukraine from 2020, adding...
Anti-corruption activist and environmental campaigner Zuzana Čaputová has comfortably won the second round of Slovakia’s presidential election, taking more than 58...
Zuzana Čaputová, a progressive anti-corruption lawyer who entered politics only a year ago, comfortably won the first round of Slovakia’s presidential election on March...