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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NEW owner of two steel rolling mills in Macedonia has borrowed Euro 25 million from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to improve their energy efficiency and expand local working capital. Mittal Steel bought two Skopje-area rolling mills last year from Balkan Steel, which had financial difficulties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NEW owner of two steel rolling mills in Macedonia has borrowed Euro 25 million from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to improve their energy efficiency and expand local working capital. Mittal Steel bought two Skopje-area rolling mills last year from Balkan Steel, which had financial difficulties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST-EVER multilateral treaty covering the Balkans has been signed in Athens, creating a European Energy Community, linking the gas (and electricity) policies of south-eastern Europe with those of the European Union (EU). Indeed, under the treaty, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria and Kosovo must apply EU energy legislation, including related environmental and competition laws.…

BY MARK ROWE
IN times of conflict, cultural property, such as archaeological sites, works of art, museums and monuments, can also suffer grievously at the hands of opposing military and guerrilla forces. In recognition of this, such objects are accorded protection by the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST-EVER multilateral treaty covering the Balkans has been signed in Athens, creating a European Energy Community, linking the gas and electricity policies of south-eastern Europe with those of the European Union (EU). Indeed, under the treaty, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria and Kosovo must apply EU energy legislation in full, including related environmental and competition laws.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CRITICS of European political institutions have sometimes been unkind about the Council of Europe, which has been accused of being a powerless talking shop. And although the Council lacks the power to fine and cajole member governments enjoyed by the European Union (EU) – from which it is completely independent – it has some important roles.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has negotiated open skies deals with Romania, Macedonia, Morocco, Albania and Bosnia & Herzegovina, which will enable their airlines to freely offer services to European Union (EU) airports, including cabotage. EU carriers would have similar rights in these four countries’ national territories.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has granted Macedonia an annual duty-free sugar export quota of 7,000 tonnes, replacing a previous unlimited concession that was abused by fraudsters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed continuing existing duty-free access to EU markets to food exports from Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia & Montenegro, and Kosovo for another five years except certain fisheries products, sugar, and ‘baby beef’, where some duties or restrictions would continue.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for Reconstruction (EAR) is financing three new assessments of Kosovo’s energy industry, focusing mainly on the autonomous Balkans province’s coal-fired power stations. The EAR, the European Union (EU) body aiding economic recovery in Kosovo, Serbia & Montenegro and Macedonia, will stage three studies:

*Examining the feasibility of building a brand new power station, which may use coal;

*Limiting the environmental impact of the coal-fired Kosovo B plant, currently the province’s main producer of electricity; and

*Studying the economic and technical feasibility of rehabilitating four units of the coal-fired Kosovo A power station.…