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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9907

26 May 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/russia
EU ready to discuss “improvement” to Energy Charter Treaty - Moscow still wary of Eastern Partnership

Brussels, 25/05/2009 (Agence Europe) - The EU-Russia summit in Khabarovsk on 21-22 May failed, it would appear, to assuage Russian concerns over the Eastern Partnership or to make any real progress on the bilateral trade problems that are still holding up Russia's accession to the WTO. However, even though Russian President Dmitri Medvedev would not rule out the possibility of a further gas crisis with Ukraine, constructive dialogue between Europe and Russia on energy security and the future...

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