European Union energy ministers called Tuesday for a new energy pact with Russia to guarantee Europe's supply of natural gas and oil, just months after a price dispute between Russia and Ukraine temporarily turned off Europe's gas.
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European leaders must drop their 25 different and uncoordinated energy policies and repudiate "any kind of nationalism" in the energy sector, EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Wednesday.
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Ukraine's government has signed a bilateral protocol with the United States in a key step to help the country's talks aimed at winning membership of the World Trade Organization, officials said Tuesday.
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Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed concern on Tuesday about the slow pace of talks with the United States on Moscow's bid to join the World Trade Organization.
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The Commission's ideas on a common EU energy policy include full market opening, external relations and renewable energies as key options. However, it shies away from stepping into national energy choices, such as nuclear.
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Officials in the West Siberian region of Tyumen said Thursday that accrued foreign investment in the regional economy had increased 57% year-on-year by January, to $1.9 billion.
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Annual EU budgets could be back on the menu after the EP budget committee has threatened to end the current Inter-Institutional Agreement on the financial perspective.
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The Russian Finance Ministry still believes that the value-added tax rate should be unified at 15% in 2009, Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Shatalov said.
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