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EU ROUND UP - EUROPEAN ENERGY NEGOTIATIONS WITH RUSSIA FROZEN OVER GEORGIA CONFLICT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has frozen its partnership and cooperation negotiations with Russia over the Georgia conflict, just three months after the talks were launched following long delays. An emergency meeting of the EU Council of Ministers has ordered no meetings will take place with Moscow on the agreement until its "troops have withdrawn to the positions held prior to 7 August", prior to its short war with Georgia.…
AL QAEDA FINANCING
BY PAUL COCHRANE
THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 attacks on the US resulted in a raft of regulations to curb terrorist financing, but seven years on Al Qaeda is still at large, has adapted to the new regulatory environment to raise funds, and morphed into an international terrorist Hydra.…
EU ROUND UP - EASTERN EUROPEAN ENERGY COMMUNITY GETS TEETH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Balkans ministerial council has approved the rules of a dispute settlement mechanism for countries participating within the southeast Europe Energy Community. This links Balkans’ gas (and electricity) regulation with that of EU member states and ensures EU energy legislation is adopted in participating countries.…
EUROPE STILL STRUGGLING TO CREATE EU-WIDE GAS MARKET - DESPITE LIBERALISATION LEGISLATION
BY ALAN OSBORN
FEW people would challenge the European Commission’s assertion earlier this year that, in practice, market integration in the gas market in the European Union (EU) "is still far from a success."
In its report Progress in Creating the Internal Gas and Electricity Market published in April, Brussels said that major barriers to the efficient functioning of the market still existed largely because of "insufficient implementation of European legislation."…
BOOMING ALGERIA OFFERS PAINT INDUSTRY LONG-TERM PROSPECTS, FUELLED BY CONTINUING LIBERALISATION REFORMS
BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut
ALGERIA’S paint sector has been experiencing healthy growth in recent years on the back of a petro-dollar fuelled construction boom, yet should the country’s initiatives at modernising and expanding its economy continue at the same pace as over the last decade, there is potential for significantly greater expansion in the paint and coatings market.…
Lebanon's turbulent friendship with the international community
And with Lebanese political leaders looking to outside powers to consolidate their domestic position, whether you are pro- or anti- Western depends on the politics of the day.
But that, like any brief summary of Lebanon, is a simplification, as although the Hizbullah led opposition is ostensibly anti-Western, strongly backed by Iran and ardently anti-Zionist, fellow opposition party the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) is predominantly Christian and pro-Western.…
EU PUSHES FOR GAS SUPPLY ALTERNATIVE IN TURKMENISTAN, FOLLOWING SMALL HUMAN RIGHTS IMPROVEMENTS
BY MARK ROWE
WHEN the European Union’s (EU) energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, visited Turkmenistan last autumn it served notice that this central Asian ex-Soviet republic had come in from the cold. Once a pariah on the international stage, because of the activity of its crazed former president Sapamurat Niyazov (NOTE – SPELLING IS CORRECT), Turkmenistan has become something more than a bit player in the international energy sector.…
NABUCCO SUPPORTERS PUSH TO SOLVE TURKISH PROBLEMS WITH CRUCIAL EUROPE GAS PIPELINE
BY ALAN OSBORN
OF all the European Union’s (EU) flagship energy projects, maybe none is more central to the goal of ensuring security of supply and none more fraught with political and technical complexity than the proposed Nabucco pipeline designed to bring natural gas from the Caspian region, the Middle East and Egypt into Austria and then on to consumers in western Europe.…
GROWING AFFLUENT CLASS AND ASPIRATIONAL YOUTH MARKET SHAPING FUTURE COSMETICS DEMAND IN NORTH AFRICA
BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Tripoli and Beirut
THE MARKET for cosmetics and toiletries in North Africa has been growing annually by a steady 5-6% over the last five years according to market participants and official data. Overall market value for the five countries – Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco – combined is more difficult to come by due to a dearth of data, but reasonable estimates put it slightly above US$1 billion, less than half the value of the Middle East and Gulf markets.…
ALGERIA SEEKS TO CEMENT ITS POSITION AS A KEY EUROPE ENERGY SUPPLIER
BY FIDELMA COOK, PAUL COCHRANE and KEITH NUTHALL
SONATRACH, Algeria’s national oil and gas company, has made no secret to its determination to strengthen its position in Europe, which already accounts for around 60% of Algeria’s export earnings….the bulk of which is in gas.…