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EU May Grant $150 Million To Crisis-Hit Moldova
October 08, 2009An EU envoy says the European Commission could give Moldova at least 100 million euros ($147 million) to help it cover its growing budget deficit, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. The announcement was made on October 7 in Chisinau by Wolfgang Behrendt...
G-20 Ministers Promise to Preserve Economic Recovery
September 06, 2009Finance ministers from both rich and developing countries are promising they will not let a global fragile economic recovery collapse. The ministers from the Group of 20 nations, known as the G-20, concluded a critical meeting in London Saturday, agreeing...
Moldovan producers use EU export quotas almost completely
August 04, 2009Moldova has used its EU wheat quota by 100% in the frame of the EU trade preferences. According to the Ministry of Economy and Trade, as of August 1, Moldova completely used its quota for the duty-free exports of 30 thousand tons of wheat to the EU....
China, EU Wait In The Wings For Access To Central Asia
August 03, 2009By Bruce Pannier Although Russia and the United States are most often mentioned as the contestants of the "new Great Game" that began after the fall of the Soviet Union, other players have also entered the arena. Central Asia, possessing...
Nabucco Intergovernmental Agreement Signed in Ankara
July 14, 2009By Saban Kardas On July 13 the Nabucco transit countries removed an important obstacle for the strategic pipeline project. Attending a high profile meeting hosted by Turkey, the prime ministers of Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Turkey inked...
EU Warns Member States of New Russian-Ukrainian Gas War
July 08, 2009By Roman Kupchinsky Following a recent telephone conversation between the head of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso, and the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the commission urged all E.U. member states to immediately begin filling gas...
Azerbaijan-Russia Gas Agreement: a Wakeup Call to EU and US
July 02, 2009By Vladimir Socor Meeting in Baku on June 29, Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev witnessed the signing of an agreement on Azerbaijani gas deliveries to Russia. The initial volumes are small, but the agreement...
Gazprom Stays the Course Under Putin's "Manual Management"
June 29, 2009By Pavel K. Baev Russian energy super-giant Gazprom has taken severe blows in the still-deepening recession, and the worst setbacks have happened in its most profitable market - the European Union. Various assessments show that the volume of its export...
Moldova and Austria are interested in winemaking cooperation
June 26, 2009According to Moldova-vin agency, a delegation of the agency has recently visited Vienna to participate in a sitting of the Austrian-Moldovan Commission for Economic Cooperation. "In the course of a working meeting in the Parliament the Stiria administrative...
- EU Leaders to Create Financial Regulatory Body
June 19, 2009By Lisa Bryant European leaders ended a two-day summit Friday with agreements to create a financial regulatory body and to back European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso's bid for another term in office. The agreement to toughen financial...