March 17, 2007
In this article for think-tank Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP), German Economics and TechnologyMinister Michael Glos highlights the key elements of the German EU Presidency's energy policy. Michael Glos outlines the major topics that will dominate the agenda for energy...
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March 16, 2007
Fifty years since the signing of the Treaty of Rome, which launched the EEC, world affairs correspondent Paul Reynolds revisits Brussels, his base in the 1980s. In the first of two reports, he considers how it has changed. Exploring the...
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March 13, 2007
Man United v Europe XI Uefa Celebration Match Date: Tuesday 13 March, 2007 GMT Venue: Old Trafford A charity football match between a 'Europe XI' and Manchester United will celebrate both a half-century of European-level club competitions and 50...
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March 10, 2007
European Union leaders have agreed to adopt a binding target on the use of renewable energy, such as wind and solar power, officials say. EU makes bold commitment on climate, renewables European leaders have agreed to a legally binding objective...
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March 08, 2007
This is real cool! VIA Special thanks goes to "client" I have heard that access to YouTube might return to normal anytime, in the mean time: BBC said: Access to the popular video-sharing website YouTube has been suspended in...
March 07, 2007
Free-thinkers are under siege from a campaign of intimidation by the far right which has created a climate of repression and self-censorship. Elizabeth Davies reports from Istanbul Karl Schmidt-Rotluff, Landschaft in Rottluff, 1921 VIA Too early for EU tax, says...
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'Mr Ocalan' conviction in Turkey A Kurdish politician in Turkey has been sentenced to six months in prison for referring to jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan as "Mr Ocalan". Murat Yetkin in The E.U. Is Curious, Too: Will Erdogan...
March 05, 2007
BY LARS-HENDRIK RÖLLER, JUAN DELGADO AND HANS W. FRIEDERISZICK Bruegel has just published a preliminary version of the first in a new series, called Bruegel Blueprints, titled "Energy: Choices for Europe". The Report was written and published in partnership with...
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March 01, 2007
A total of 2.3 billion euros worth of EU grant funds have been allocated to Turkey to support the country’s harmonization process until 2010 within the framework of the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance, Dr. Holger Schröder from the Delegation of...
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February 28, 2007
Presenting the Commission's priorites for 2007, Secretary-General Catherine Day said that the EU must focus on meeting the challenges of globalisation to avoid an anti-EU backlash from citizens. Make or break - The EU in 2007 EU-25/27 Watch- No. 4...
February 20, 2007
BIA reports that there were 293 cases of thought crime in Turkey in 2006. MetroPoll opinion poll results published in many newspapers today... VIA * Migrants help tolerant Spain boom Ministers reject EU targets for slashing national red tape; EU...
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February 17, 2007
Nine EU member states have signed a declaration to include more 'Social Europe' in the Constitution, nearly two years after French and Dutch voters rejected the text in a referendum, mainly over globalisation fears. Policies challenge 'open Europe' Ségolène Royal's...
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February 16, 2007
The controversy over Israel’s controversial work near Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque risked overshadowing Olmert visit, but the Jewish community dismisses Turkish PM's criticism * Israel, Turkey probe closer ties In the mean time, Cengiz Çandar writes on an exceptional reception for...
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February 12, 2007
The Hrant Dink murder will be remembered not only for its shocking impact but also for the imprint it left on the press. Apart from debates on polluted information and manipulative reporting, the largely abhorred murder caused a chronic problem...
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Christian Egenhofer, in this Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) policy brief, examines the nature and effectiveness of targets set by the EU in the context of its new energy and climate-change package. * EU undecided over energy 'industrial revolution';...
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February 09, 2007
Energy Security; Demands Imposed on German and European Foreign Policy by a Changed Configuration in the World Energy Market SWP Research Paper 2007/RP 02, January 2007, 28 pages by Friedemann Müller...
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February 04, 2007
By Hildegard von LIECHTENSTEIN, PhD in engineering. After her studies of Bio-engineering and Pharmacy, she is an Approved Pharmacist, wrote her thesis on the effects of nuclear technology on the environment. [Here for the doc....] Dossier of Wednesday, January 17,...
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January 25, 2007
Conflicts and Potentials of a Difficult Partnership... SWP Research Paper by Sabine Fischer Hasan Ozertem in The EU's Energy Hunger and Turkey's Role as an Energy Terminal This commentary is from USAK's Energy Review Newsletter: http://www.turkishweekly.net/energyreview/TurkishWeekly-EnergyReview3.pdf...
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January 22, 2007
DIETRICH JUNG in Turkey's Future: EU Member or Islamist Rogue State? (I) says: SPOT 1: The representatives of authoritarian politics are increasingly outnumbered by a rising class of well-educated Turks who, regardless of their secularist or religious leanings, have embraced...
January 17, 2007
Dossier of Friday, January 5, 2007; How will Europe get into gear? There are great expectations that the German EU presidency will get Europe moving again. Some commentators are sceptical. But others are convinced that the European constitution will be...
January 16, 2007
According to a poll, Turks regret that they rejected to send Turkish soldiers to Iraq as allies of the US. However, I must remind you that I got the news from HaberTurk who had supported sending soldiers... The European parliament...
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January 13, 2007
Explosion at the U.S. embassy in Athens Russia has agreed to slash duty it will charge Belarus for crude oil, ending a damaging row between the two states. EU seeks to broaden horizons for energy imports; Europe must seek...
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January 12, 2007
Ariana Ferentinou interviews Niyazi Mustafa Kızılyürek who was born on the island in 1959 and works at the University of Cyprus on the Greek side as a professor on Turkish Studies: "The current impasse on Cyprus has much to do...
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January 11, 2007
As Russia-Belarus oil blockade ends (Russia has resumed pumping crude oil to Europe via Belarus, according to Russian pipeline operator Transneft), Azeri gas 'flows into Georgia', Officials in Georgia say the country is starting to take gas from neighbouring Azerbaijan...
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January 10, 2007
Gideon Rachman in After 15 astounding years, the Union enters its surreal phase says: ........The whole incident is symptomatic of the EU's broader problem with reality. For the truth is that the EU is poised to spend the next five...
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January 09, 2007
Russian authorities cut off a major oil pipeline passing through Belarus to Western Europe in a commercial dispute that calls into question Moscow's reliability as the second-largest oil exporter to the 'old' continent.. In the mean time, Russia's decision to...
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Russia has cut oil supplies to Poland, Germany and Ukraine amid a trade row with its neighbour Belarus. The Russian state pipeline operator, Transneft, said it cut supplies on the Druzhba pipeline to prevent Belarus illegally siphoning off oil. The...
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January 08, 2007
In a paper to be presented this week, the Commission proposes a three-year road map towards a common European energy policy, with the aim of achieving a 20% greenhouse-gas emissions reduction by 2020..... A vulnerable dollar? Germany at the EU...
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THE CYPRUS GOVERNMENT has issued a veiled threat to Bulgarian Turks who live in the north, following questions over whether they would be allowed to cross to the south after entering the island illegally. The issue was raised earlier in...
January 06, 2007
Andrew Bounds says: Chilly northern Europe could reap big benefits from global warming, while the Mediterranean faces crippling shortages of both water and tourists by the middle of the century, according to the first comprehensive study of its effects on...
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January 05, 2007
"In this article in the periodical Integration, the German Minister of State for Europe, Günter Gloser, lists the energy priorities of the German Presidency during the first half of 2007................. [in German] In the mean time, Russia has expressed dismay...
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January 04, 2007
Belarus has imposed big taxes on Russian oil pumped through its pipelines to customers in Europe....The move comes three days after Belarus reluctantly agreed to demands by the Russian state energy giant, Gazprom, to a doubling of gas prices....Belarus says...
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December 29, 2006
A last minute news: Belarus has said that it expects a gas price dispute with Russia, which threatens to disrupt European supplies, to be resolved before the New Year. Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky said the price of Russian gas should...
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December 28, 2006
The Finnish EU presidency is winding down to an unspectacular end, having been trumped by Russia's stormy relations with the bloc and the enduring Cyprus problem.............. Barroso's energy liberalisation plans to face uphill struggle; European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso...
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December 27, 2006
Russia is planning to turn off gas supplies to EU transit state Belarus on New Year's day after price talks broke down Tuesday night, but says EU energy flows will be safe this winter no matter what happens. BUT Russian...
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December 26, 2006
[it is Christmas time, traffic really slowed down, many blogs and sites are producing fewer posts nowadays, but this blog will keep the same tempo. Hahaha i could't let you leave without posts and happy Christmas for all who care!...
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