The EBRD will hold its Annual Meeting in Kiev on 18-19 May, returning to the Ukrainian capital 10 years after it last staged a meeting there in 1998. Discussions during the two-day session will focus on the progress in the whole EBRD region over the last decade, and especially in Ukraine which in that period has experienced a peaceful political revolution that led to democracy.  [more]

Roundtable “Ukraine-EU: Energy Security Issue” was organised in Brussels by European Association of Ukrainians. On demand of Ukrainian NGOs representatives some amendments were introduced into the text of the concluding statement, adopted by roundtable participants. UNIAN was told about this by roundtable participants.  [more]

During the last two years after the Orange Revolution Ukraine has been persevering to integrate into the European community. The European orientation of Ukraine has ceased to be only political declaration and was amplified by actual attempts to integrate into the European and global economic, energy and transport networks. Ukraine is trying to become a reliable partner of Europe and a participant of the world market on full scale.  [more]

The tragic events of 09.11.2001 in the U.S.A. made the world community to realize more clearly than ever the vulnerability of the world order to the organized crime and terrorism. The globalization processes made more urgent the international cooperation in the struggle against criminal acts of transnational character.  [more]

“European Union and Ukraine: Energy Security Problems” roundtable participants stress the urgency of the problem that was discussed, as well as the constructive character of their discussion.

The participants state that there are complicated and pressing issues concerning organizing a stable communication of the EU countries’ growing needs in hydrocarbon energy carriers and in covering the existing deficit of electrical energy in some EU countries. In our opinion, these issues must be solved in the course of direct talks with all the interested sides: the countries consuming, producing, and transiting the respective resources. Only the policy aimed at taking into account the legal interests of all the energy market participants may be efficient and really common European.  [more]

The modern situation with the Europe’s energy supply is characterized by a constant complication of relations between the European Union and Russia. Correspondingly, transit countries begin to play a more and more important role in securing the reliability of Europeans’ supply with energy carriers.  [more]