RUSSIA – EU DEAL
May 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLWIDE-RANGING joint-actions involving the European Union (EU) and Russia in terms of environmental policy has been agreed in a cooperation deal forged at a summit in Moscow. Russian president Vladimir Putin, European Commission president José Manuel Barroso and current EU council president Jean-Claude Juncker, of Luxembourg, struck the deal. It will see both sides trying to converge their environmental legislation, although in practice this is likely to see Russia adopting EU standards. The same kind of interpretation will doubtless be made ...
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