Energy geopolitics
Passing 2014 without a Single Energy Market? The single energy market has been on the European Commission's agenda for quite some time now. It is set to be accomplished by 2014, but currently it looks as if the EU is set to miss its 2014-target. In its recent communication, published on 15 November 2012, the Commission admits that the "EU ...
EU Resource Dependency Will Result in a Weaker Europe in the Future Following the presentation of the national winning article of My Europe initiative - a project supported by euinside in Bulgaria - we are now glad to present the article that grabbed the second prize. The author of this paper, Bogomil Gospodinov, a student in the German Language Highschool in So ...
A Single European Energy Policy? Tightening of discipline inside and of behaviour outside. More or less this is how we can describe in one sentence the European Commission Communication on the European energy policy, published on September 7 and titled: "The EU Energy Policy: Engaging with Partners Beyond Our Borders". The prop ...
Between wish and can Several problems emerged during the debate in the European Parliament on April 6 on the future nuclear stress tests and the standards for nuclear safety. What to do with those nuclear power plants that fail the tests, the future of nuclear energy in the EU in general, development of alternative ...
Serbia – Russia 1:1 "I don't know how would it be in Russia, but if Vladimir Putin decided to run for a president of Serbia, he will certainly win the elections". The comment of the Russian newspaper Kommersant seems to be best describing the visit of Russia's Prime Minister in Belgrade on March 23. The final resul ...
Will Croatia Elope with Gazprom for South Stream? "Croatia is under huge pressure by Russian company Gazprom and the Kremlin to sign a new bilateral agreement to regulate relations and rights related to the construction of the South Stream gas pipeline! And that before Croatia joins the EU". This is how the leading article of the Sunday edition ...
Locking Up the Monopoly The authorities in Belgrade seem to be in a very interesting position these days - while awaiting to receive a EU candidate status from Brussels they did not miss to strengthen their ties with Moscow. Last week the symbol of these strong ties was a button, pressed by Serbian President Boris Tadi ...
Conditioned transparency for the nuclear stress tests The most important element of the nuclear stress tests, which will start in all the 143 nuclear power stations in the European Union on June 1st, namely transparency, is put under certain conditionality. As is written in the criteria for the inspections, agreed on Tuesday, "the reports should be ...
Nuclear stress tests for all Ensuring the safety of nuclear power plants cannot stop at European Union's borders, which is why the Union would ask nuclear stress tests to be held in neighbouring countries and in the world at large, as well. This is stipulated in the conclusions (p. 10, art. III), adopted on March 25 by the ...
Putin in Slovenia – South Stream, Libya and a little bit of sports South Stream, Libya and sports - those were the main topics of the talks between Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Slovenian counterpart Borut Pahor. The two met in Ljubljana on March 22 in the framework of Putin's official visit to Slovenia. As South Stream was officially the aim o ...
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