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EU to Impose Taxes on Kenyan Exports
Kenyan agricultural exports entering the European Union will be taxed by the E.U., from the first of October. And that #39;s because talks between the EU and the East African Community for a...
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Russia launched new military excersices near its border with Ukraine. (Reuters)
EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said he hoped to reach an "interim solution" with Russia over its gas supply cut to Ukraine when the three sides meet for crunch talks in Berlin on Friday.
Russia halted all gas sales to the ex-Soviet nation in June after Ukraine balked at paying a higher price imposed by Moscow in the wake of the February ouster in Kiev of a pro-Kremlin president.
Ukraine still transports volumes intended for Russia's other European clients. But EU nations fear that Kiev may be forced to tap into those flows once the winter heating season begins.
"The gas sector and the energy sector as a whole should not be a political tool," Oettinger told a forum in Kiev devoted to European energy security.
"It should not be a weapon in these difficult times, in the crisis between Ukraine and Russia and between Europe and Russia."
Energy giant Russia supplies Europe with about a third of its gas needs through a handful of Soviet-era pipelines and the new Nord Stream link that runs under the Baltic Sea and connects directly with Germany.
Ukraine currently transports half of the Russian gas used in European nations.
But countries such as Italy receive all their Russia supplies through the Ukrainian link.
Russia is also currently constructing a South Stream link that would also avoid Ukraine and supply southern European client states.
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European Union Warns Russia Not to Use Gas as Weapon in Ukraine Crisis
BRUSSELS, August 1 (RIA Novosti) The European Union has demonstrated the first signs of thinking over an exit strategy from the current anti-Russian sanctions, Russias EU envoy Vladimir Chizhov said Friday.
Alas, serious problems in our relations have already become reality. We did not make these problems, but we will have to solve them sooner or later. I think that [EU members] realize this. There are even the first signs of what is called exit strategy as well, Chizhov said.
The Russian envoy said the European Union is unlikely to further expand the economic sanctions against Russia that came into force Friday this month.
Earlier on Friday, the diplomat said Russia was ready to cooperate with the European Union whenever it was ready. Russia and EU members have several joint projects, the work on which is hampered by the sanctions imposed by the European Union against Russia.
On Wednesday, the European Commission added the names of eight Russian individuals and three entities targeted by the sanctions over their alleged role in the escalation of the Ukrainian crisis. The overall numbers of Russian individuals and companies affected by the EU sanctions are currently 95 and 23, respectively.
The first round of sanctions against Russia was implemented by the United States and the European Union in March in response to Crimeas reunification with Russia following a referendum. Moscow has repeatedly said that the measures are counterproductive.
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