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15/09/09 EU Confirms Funding for Bulgaria State Railways The news is a much needed boost for BDZ who on September 2 announced that it intends to lay off a total of about 2 000 workers in order to make ends meet by the end of 2009. The total amount of the EU funding has not yet been made clear. http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=107854 Georgia: Bank Launches New Partnership Strategy The Bank’s Board of Directors discussed a new Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) with Georgia on September 10 that provides a framework for the Bank's assistance to Georgia for 2009-2012. Under the new strategy, new initiatives will support investments in transport infrastructure, reforms in social assistance and health coverage for the poor, improvements in the business environment, and strengthening of expenditure efficiency. The CPS envisages Bank Group financing of about $740-900 million over four years, underpinned by a strong program of knowledge services. http://go.worldbank.org/IOCW192DK0?cid=ISG_E_WBWeeklyUpdate_NL Georgia—Third East-West Highway Improvement Project—US$147 million to improve access, ease of transit, and road safety http://go.worldbank.org/TMF1U510F0?cid=ISG_E_WBWeeklyUpdate_NL 28/08/09 Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and his Romanian counterpart Cristian Diaconescu attend a press conference in Ankara, the capital of Turkey, Aug. 27, 2009. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Thursday that Turkey and Romania would promote economic cooperation in the Black Sea region http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/27/content_11955396.htm Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister Cristian Diaconescu said that the Turkish government would soon lift the visa requirement for Romanians. 27/08/09 Moldova's Communist-led government has said it would submit its resignation at the opening of a new parliament this week. http://www.rferl.org/content/Moldova_Government_To_Resign_At_Session/1808260.html 24/08/09 UNITED We Build the Future!' Conference prepared by: * No Border Project - Social Action Centre (UA) For more info check this link http://www.unitedagainstracism.org/pages/Kievinv.htm 13/08/09 EU Condemns Murder Of Chechnya Charity Head http://www.rferl.org/content/EU_Condemns_Murder_Of_Chechnya_Charity_Head/1798759.html 07/08/09 Turkey and Russia Conclude Energy Deals ISTANBUL — Russia and Turkey concluded energy agreements on Thursday that will support Turkey’s drive to become a regional hub for fuel transshipments while helping Moscow maintain its monopoly on natural gas shipments from Asia to Europe.Turkey granted the Russian natural gas giant Gazprom use of its territorial waters in the Black Sea, under which the company wants to route its so-called South Stream pipeline to gas markets in Eastern and Southern Europe. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/world/europe/07turkey.html?hpw 30/07/09 Results from Moldova's parliamentary elections show that pro-Western opposition parties have enough votes to unseat the ruling Communist Party, promising to open a new chapter in the country's history. http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1788420.html 29/07/09 Romanian Romgaz and Petrom may bid on Black Sea oil-block leases.Romanian gas producer Romgaz Medias, oil company Petrom (SNP.RO) and several foreign companies are interested in leasing oil blocks in the country’s Black Sea area. A new portal and Search Engine Dedicated to the Republic of Moldova has Been Launched http://sev.prnewswire.com/multimedia-online-internet/20090728/3943576en_iCrossing28072009-1.html 28/07/09 Seven MEPs will be in Moldova to observe the new legislative elections due on Wednesday 29 July. Parliament's observation mission will be led by Romanian MEP Marian-Jean Marinescu (EPP). The Moldovan Promo-LEX Association launched the third report on the monitoring of the campaign for the July 29, 2009. The monitoring was done in 7 electoral constituencies, namely Floresti, Rezina, Dubasari, Anenii Noi, Causeni, and Stefan Voda and the Transnistrian region of Moldova. The monitoring report covers the period between July 19-26, 2009. http://www.promolex.md/index.php?module=news&item=204 The European Union is close to handing Ukraine a loan package to reform the country's run-down gas sector, UPI reported Monday, citing a statement from the European Commission. Ukraine and the potential lenders are "close to agreement regarding the necessary short- and medium-term commitments by the Ukrainian authorities on reform of the Ukrainian gas sector which would make it possible for (international lenders) to prepare a package of support for Ukraine," the EC said in the statement. http://www.ukrainianjournal.com/index.php?w=article&id=8795 27/07/09 Russia approved Friday the project to build highway around the entire coastal line of the Black Sea for the amount of USD 1 bln. http://www.emportal.rs/en/news/region/94967.html 23/07/09 President Traian Basescu and Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov signed on Wednesday a joint declaration voicing both sides' openness to forging deeper bilateral ties both in the economic and energy sector and in other fields of interest to the two states. The decision to detain two youth activists and bloggers on charges of hooliganism is stoking concern in Azerbaijan about the future of the country’s nascent blogosphere, arguably among the most robust in the South Caucasus. Some observers believe that a government attempt to clamp down on new media will only cause the blogosphere to blossom. http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insightb/articles/eav072209.shtml 22/07/09 Moldova, Sweden to hold talks on 1.5-million-euro grant http://www.moldpres.md/news/default.asp?Lang=en&ID=114081 BSTDB CONTRIBUTES TO ENVIRONMENTAL MODERNIZATION OF A MAJOR ROMANIAN POWER PLANT BSTDB will make available a 13-year € 20 million secured corporate loan to finance the environmental rehabilitation and modernization programme of Turceni, the largest lignite fired power plant of Romania. The funding of the Operation of € 170 million is arranged by the EBRD and includes participation from commercial banks. http://www.bstdb.gr/press_releases/2009/20090721_06.htm 21/07/09 Brussels Troika: Armenia, EU review relations, discuss regional issues. Armenia reaffirmed its commitment to European integration and pledged to continue reforms as it hosted on Monday a high-level European Union delegation touring the South Caucasus. The European Union ‘Troika’ led by Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt was in Yerevan on July 20, after visiting Georgia and Azerbaijan, to meet President Serzh Sargsyan and other senior officials.
20/07/09 The European Commission allocates €70 million for key investment projects in the EU’s Neighbourhood.NIF operations focus on countries which have already signed an ENP Action Plan with the EU i.e. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Georgia, Jordan, Lebanon, Republic of Moldova, Morocco, the Palestinian Occupied Territories, Tunisia and Ukraine. http://euroalert.net/en/news.aspx?idn=8967 Romania, Hungary and Serbia may draw up a joint social-security plan Youth activists and bloggers detained Emil Mili and Adnan Hajizada have been recently detained in Azerbaijan because of apparently groundless accusation. http://www.osservatoriobalcani.org/article/articleview/11607/1/404/ 17/07/09 World Bank Launches New Partnership Strategy with Romania http://www.webnewswire.com/node/462530 16/07/09 Russian human rights activist abducted, killed in Chechnya http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-russia-activist16-2009jul16,0,2829673.story 15/07/09 Greece Sign Gas Pipeline Deal The Greek-Bulgarian pipeline is the extension of the ITGI to the Balkans, which will transfer gas from Azerbaijan to Greece. The agreement comes on the heels of a Nabucco pipeline deal signed in Turkey on Monday. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/21089/ 14/07/09 Election Day in Moldova The Republic of Moldova on 29 July will hold new parliamentary elections. Despite the opposition leaders’ demand not to hold elections in the summer but to postpone them until the autumn, the communist authorities decided to organize the elections as soon as possible and even set them in the middle of the week, on a Wednesday. The midweek Election Day is unusual for the Republic of Moldova, as all previous elections were on Sundays. The opposition suspects the Party of Communists changed the Election Day in an attempt to reduce voter turnout and to exclude from the electoral process young voters and those living in other countries that are mostly anticommunist. In addition, to avoid the possibility of having the summer elections declared invalid because of not reaching the participation threshold of 50% plus one of the total registered voters; just before dissolving, the parliament reduced the condition for valid elections to a participation threshold of one third of total registered voters. http://www.osservatoriobalcani.org/article/articleview/11560/1/404/ Romanian reactions about the elections day in Moldova BUCHAREST -- Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu has said Bucharest wants to see fair parliamentary elections held in neighboring Moldova on July 29, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. Diaconescu said on July 9 that "we would like a correct, equitable electoral process in Moldova [in which] all political parties have equal access to the public." 13/07/09 Agreed Nabucco plan July 13 (Bloomberg) -- European countries planning a pipeline to reduce reliance on Russian natural gas meet today to seal an agreement that may help companies led by OMV AG find customers for the 7.9 billion-euro ($11 billion) project. Officials from Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria will gather in the Turkish capital Ankara to back the Nabucco project, which has been in planning since at least 2004. The venture has been delayed by a lack of commitments from customers, transit nations and gas suppliers. Nabucco is intended to cut Europe’s dependence on Russian gas, helping to avoid a repeat of the cutoffs that reduced supplies to the region twice in the last three years. The link, due to send as much as 31 billion cubic meters of Caspian-region fuel a year via Turkey to Austria starting in 2014, still faces competition for gas. The link would bypass Russia and Ukraine, helping Europe find an alternative to Moscow-based OAO Gazprom, which supplies about 25 percent of the region’s gas. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a_kzTphw_bvs |
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