Новости за 01.12.2017

In an effort to boost oil prices, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC members, including Russia, reached an agreement on November 30 to extend output cuts through the end of 2018. The world’s largest oil producer, OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia had insisted to extend the oil production cuts. At a news conference

The Southeastern Mediterranean citizens of the bloc are at unrest, as the culinary version of a hamburger ‘may be about to get skewered’ by Brussels, according to media reports. This happened as the European Parliament’s Health Committee raised concerns about the impacts of phosphates that are used as food additives. The Health Committee of the EU’s

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On November 30, Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller held a working meeting with heads of leading Russian pipe companies and the Pipe Producers Association in Moscow to discuss joint efforts made by the parties during the implementation of Gazprom’s strategic projects, including the supplies of pipe products for the construction of the Power of Siberia gas

ASTANA - Global Affairs Canada and Kazakhstan’s Energy Ministry have signed memorandum of Understanding on project that will provide radionuclide and noble gas detection station to Kazakhstan to strengthen the verification of Comprehensive Nuclear test ban treaty. “This is the first such station not only in Kazakhstan, but also in the Central Asian region, with

Chancellor Angela Merkel held her first meeting with Germany’s Social Democrats in her prolonged bid to forge a new government as a top politician warned that any talks between the two rival factions could last into February. More than two months after Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union emerged victorious but weakened from a national election, she

Russian gas monopoly Gazprom said on November 30 that the Nord Stream gas pipeline transmitted its 200 billionth cubic metre of gas from Russia to Germany via the Greifswald delivery point. “The Nord Stream gas pipeline is a high-profile pan-European infrastructure project, a stellar example of mutually beneficial and productive cooperation between Gazprom and its

The Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament wants a cleaning up in the UK’s overseas territories to be a condition of any trade deal with the European Union after Brexit. The call comes as the group launches a new report which argues that the fight against tax havens, tax evasion and tax avoidance must be

A report by ECR MEP Helga Stevens on the European Disability Strategy was overwhelmingly supported by MEPs on November 30. The report follows up on the European Commission’s communication on the implementation of the strategy and set out the European Parliament’s priorities for a comprehensive and effective disability strategy by 2030. The report contains a

A proposal for a new Dublin system was tabled by Estonia, which holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU, on November 29. Commenting on the draft plans, the European Parliament’s lead MEP on the Dublin regulation, Cecilia Wikström (ALDE, SE), said: “I welcome the work of the Estonian presidency in attempting to

Brussels considers blacklisting Turkey as a tax heaven, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. According to the Code of Conduct Group that seats in the Justus Lipsius building in Brussels, Turkey is one of the regimes with too permissive tax rules. Because Ankara is seen as a “non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes,” it could be blacklisted. If the

Officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on November 10 questioned employees of the country’s snack giant S.Group Corporation, which belongs to MP Serhii Rybalka from the Radical Party of Ukraine (RPU). Two top managers were also detained and financial documents seize. The reason: Rybalka is accused for cooperating with the separatists and doing

The stock of EU migrants in the UK has fallen by 106,000, a year after the referendum on EU membership, the UK’s statistical service (ONS) reported on Thursday. That is a drop of 43% in EU migration. Overall migration dropped by 82,000. Migration is now down to the level of 2013. The objective of the

Brexit talks are back on track as London offered written guarantees on the Irish border, The Times reported on Thursday. A proposal on the 500km Irish border has been submitted in writing. London pleases Dublin and Brussels Brussels and London have addressed the last hurdle on the Brexit negotiations. British officials have achieved a breakthrough

A regional court in Pirkanmaa, Tampere, Finland, has outlawed the Nordic Resistance Movement (PVL), the yle news agency reported on Thursday. The racist Neo-Nazi organization has been accused of violent extremism in Finland. The organization has political and organizational links to other extremist organizations in Nordic countries. The PVL was not a legally registered association,