Russia will price its gas supplies to Ukraine in line with European levels at an average 280 U.S. dollars per 1,000 cubic meters in 2010, the Russian energy giant Gazprom announced on Wednesday. “The average price for next year will be about 280 dollars, which is in line with European …

Enlarging the European Union to bring in further countries from South Eastern Europe will mean 100 million new EU citizens and will “not be a quick or simple process”, Carl Bildt, foreign minister of Sweden, told the European Parliament on November 25 2009.   Sweden currently holds the presidency of …

The Russian and Moldovan prime ministers, Vladimir Putin and Vlad Filat, had a telephone conversation on Wednesday, Russian Prime Minister’s Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.