Brussels, 20/09/2006 (Agence Europe) - For much of the 1990s, “the distant and complex region of Central Asia was not on the EU radar screens”. Anna Mateeva, a British researcher at the London School of Economics explains in Chaillot Paper No. 91 “EU Stakes in Central Asia (published by the EU Institute of Security Studies and headed by Nicole Gnesotto) that the region became more visible following the involvement of energy companies and the activities of international organisations...