Новости за 10.06.2016

If the Czech Republic's pro-Kremlin president Karel Zeman manages to drag the country's most powerful oligarch, Babis, into his orbit, it could mark a geopolitical U-turn.

Referendum on 23 June would not immediately end Britain’s 43 year-old membership, but EU finance chiefs already wondering how to contain potential shock.

Last-minute registration by young people likely to boost the Remain side. High turnout, near 80 percent, would probably lead to victory for the Remain side.

EU states make it harder to buy semi-automatic rifles in wake of Paris attacks, but latest draft of gun control bill criticised for loopholes.

If the UK leaves the EU it would lose access to the single market, Germany's powerful finance chief has said. The EU would also halt integration, he added.

European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker will meet Russian president Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg next week. Juncker will participate in an economic forum where he will give a speech. It will be his first personal meeting with Putin since November 2014 at a G20 summit in Australia. EU-Russia relations, especially economic relations, will be on the agenda, a commission spokeswoman said.

The European Central Bank is believed to have injected money into German carmaker Volkswagen, bruised by the emission scandal. The new scheme kicked off on Wednesday and is intended to boost Europe's economy. ECB's purchases included securities issued by Volkswagen AG due in 2019, those of tiremaker Continental AG and of French mobile company Orange SA, according to Bloomberg.

Gas pipeline operators in Bulgaria and Slovakia, Bulgartransgaz and Eustream, signed on Thursday an agreement to seek EU funding to build a new Eastring pipeline for future gas supplies. Eastring was proposed by Slovakia after the EU suspended the South Stream project, a pipeline to deliver gas from Russia. Eastring would link Slovakia with existing pipelines in Ukraine, Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania and make Bulgaria a regional gas hub.

Spain’s leftist Podemos party has printed its political program in the form of an Ikea catalogue, so voters who are uninterested in politics might read it. “If we want to pursue different objectives we need to take different measures,” Carolina Bescansa, the party's co-founder said, according to El Mundo. She said the goal is for the electoral program to become the “most read in the history of democracy.”

Hungary says migrants who crossed from its territory to Austria first entered the EU in Greece and Budapest is not responsible for their care.

The ALDE group recently hosted a conference to discuss the EU-Cuba agreement and Cuba's path towards human rights and democracy. Civil society representatives from Cuba said the agreement failed to consult the people.

The European football championship starts Friday amid strikes and terror threats. The government wants to demonstrate that normal life can go on and to win back popularity.

EU enlargements failed to deliver basis human rights to Roma minorities, but the philanthropic billionaire hopes current candidates will fare better by learning lessons from previous mistakes.

Russia does not have a veto on Georgia’s foreign policy and billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili does not rule the country, the Georgian president has said.