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BY KEITH NUTHALL
COOPERATION between the European Union (EU) and Russia will be intensified regarding constructing energy infrastructure projects of joint interest, under a detailed “road-map” approved in Moscow. Russian president Vladimir Putin, European Commission president José Manuel Barroso and EU council president Jean-Claude Juncker signed the deal, which also highlights improving the safe transport of energy products, “by pipeline, rail and sea”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Russia have signed an agreement guaranteeing access to Russian markets by American poultry, beef and pork producers. It creates special tariff quotas for US exporters, with higher duties being levied on excess shipments. The deal also covers the allocation and distribution of import licences, plus sanitary issues.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A FEASIBILITY study is to be staged by the European Union (EU) and Russia into integrating their electricity markets, as part of a wide-ranging series of joint actions on energy policy. These have been agreed in a detailed cooperation “road-map” approved at a Moscow summit by Russian president Vladimir Putin, European Commission president José Manuel Barroso and current EU council president Jean-Claude Juncker, of Luxembourg.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to create a Euro 50 million loan facility to be on lent by banks in Bulgaria to individuals and households making energy efficiency improvements to their homes. The country – which joins the European Union (EU) in 2007 – is a notorious spendthrift when it comes to energy usage.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Russia have agreed to deepen their cooperation over judicial matters, examining potential joint projects to “ensure the independence and effectiveness” of both sides court systems. Although this co-operation ‘road map’ approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin and European Commission president José Manuel Barroso is supposedly an equal partnership, the EU is more expected to assist Russian judicial reform than vice versa.…

BY MARK ROWE
LEADING insurance associations have welcomed a recent agreement between the European Union (EU) and Russia that will liberalise the Russian insurance industry. At a summit in Moscow involving Russian President Vladimir Putin and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, the EU and Russia struck a detailed cooperation agreement on a range of economic and trade issues.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UKRAINE silicon carbide producer has failed to persuade the European Commission that existing 24% anti-dumping duties on its exports to the European Union (EU) were outdated and should be abolished. Although Zaporozhsky Abrasivny Combinat (ZAC) had made price undertakings to avoid paying the duties, it claimed that the 1996 analysis behind their imposition was flawed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WIDE-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.…

BY MARK ROWE
IN the days of the Soviet Union, Russians would make jokes about the shades of “concrete” grey available for any internal redecorating you planned to do. No longer. Disposable incomes are higher, so Russians are discovering DIY, while a vast face-lift has been given to many of the country’s cities and towns.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission will stage a wide-ranging competition inquiry into the energy sector, with officials to “identify obstacles to competition – be it regulation, state aid, private barriers” then “propose solutions, working closely with national administrations, regulatory bodies and competition authorities”.…