Brussels, 21/01/2011 (Agence Europe) - The EU is “seriously concerned” by the fact that on 14 January, the parliament of Kazakhstan approved an amendment to the Constitution which makes possible the extension - by popular vote - of the current mandate of President Noursoultan Nazarbaïev for a further period of eight years. Replacing the normal presidential elections scheduled for 2012 and 2017 with a “plebiscite on a single presidential candidate” runs counter to the principles of...