EU-Russia summit 2009
Russia offers a sunset over Volga, the EU - a boat "The Prime Minister of Canada said that to have a common border with the US was like sharing bed with an elephant. We share our bed with a bear. [...] I would like to invite the Commission to go to Nizhnyi Novgorod not just with a large pot of honey, but also with a big net". These words belong ...
We cannot negotiate with Nature, said Jose Manuel Barroso In a surprisingly cheerful atmosphere the press conference after the EU-Russia summit took place in Stockholm. A reason for the many smiles and good humour were the numerous agreements which give hope that maybe the moment, when the EU and Russia would really turn into partners and would starts ...
Improvement of conditions for exploration and extraction of raw materials in the EU by protecting, at the same time, the environment. This is recommended in the conclusions of the Competitiveness Council in Brussels. This means that it is necessary the EU to find relatively short-term and practi ...
The EU has signaled readiness to discuss the Russian initiative for the development of a new international and legal base for energy cooperation, said the president of the European Commission Jose Manuel Baroso at a press conference in Khabarovsk, where the EU-Russia summit is held today. He was ...
The EU-Russia summit will start with very hard positions Very firm statements precede the EU-Russia summit which starts later today in the Russian city of Khabarovsk. For example, in an interview for the Russian news agency Novosti the high representative for security and foreign policy Javier Solana says that the EU is open for dialogue with Russia o ...
The EU does not need a reset of its relations with Russia The EU and Russia have always had serious frictions on numerous issues but there was a sense of optimism and partnership at their regular summit in Rostov-on-Don. A reason for this sense was the start, on June 1st, of the initiative "Partnership for Modernisation". If before the European Union f ...
Russia and the EU will warn each other of potential energy disruptions As a continuation of the agreements from the EU-Russia summit in Khabarovsk earlier this year, the European commissioner on energy policy Andris Piebalgs and the Russian energy minister Sergey Shmatko signed on Monday a Memorandum on an Early Warning Mechanism. The document includes a clear defi ...
Every warming of Russian-American relations might be for Eastern Europe's expense The EU-Russia summit in Khabarovsk has been relatively quiet in comparison to the last few summits when there were a lot of rows. This is what Andrew Wilson said in an interview for euinside. He's an expert on Eastern Europe and Russia in the European Council for Foreign Relations (ECFR). He sai ...
South Ossetia and energy are the problem between EU and Russia The war in Georgia and the gas crisis on January with Ukraine appear to be the stumbling point for the EU-Russia relations, claims the director of research programmes in the Institute for international and strategic relations in Paris Lore Delcoure in an interview with the Russian news agency No ...
The crisis will dominate the EU-Russia summit The financial and economic crisis will dominate the EU-Russia summit in Khabarovsk on the 21st and 22nd of May. This becomes clear from the conclusions of the GAERC in Brussels. More specifically the leaders of the Union and Russia will focus on the global financial and economic crisis and on th ...
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