Interview with Rusif Hüseynov, director and co-funder of the Topchubashov center, an Azerbaijani think tank based in Baku: "While other post-Soviet countries have been desperately seeking EU membership, the Azerbaijani side decided not to align itself with some power bloc in order…
Czechia/Hungary – The Visegrád Group appeared for many years as a more or less politically cohesive entity, representing the specific interests of Central Europe against Brussels’ efforts at imposing leftist liberal ideologies upon the whole EU and its drive for ever more…
Poland – The Polish oil group PKN Orlen announced on Saturday, 25 February, that oil deliveries from Russia via the Druzhba pipeline had come to a stop. In recent times, the Druzhba pipeline had been carrying some 10% of Polish oil…
Poland – Like the other countries of the former Eastern bloc, Poland long remained highly dependent on Russian hydrocarbons after the fall of communism (in 1989–90) and the departure of the last Russian troops (in September 1993), which ended five decades of…
By Antoine de Longevialle.
Hungary - ‘For seven years I’ve been working to build a foreign policy based on our national interests, rather than on the mentality and logic of a reluctant ally. We’re doing well, but there’s one piece of the…
Poland - Gazprom says it intends to build a new $11bn gas pipeline from Russia to Germany on its own after a joint venture with five private groups fell apart over pressure from Poland’s anti-monopoly watchdog.
The Russian state-run gas giant said…