Lithuania on Thursday chose the U.S.-Japanese consortium Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy as the strategic investor in a nuclear power plant in Lithuania.

• July 14, 2011

Every year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) publishes the World Energy Outlook Report.IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka appeared before the European Parliament’s Industry, Energy and Research Committee to present a preview of this year’s report, which will be published in November. As a highlight, the forthcoming Outlook has a special chapter on nuclear power, taking into account the market conditions and emerging political paradigm that have materialized since the accident at the Fukushima-Daiichi power plant in Japan.

• July 14, 2011

Insights into Turkish domestic and international politics during June 2011

Key Points:

• Despite the fact that the ruling AKP did not gain the electoral majority it requiredto unilaterally re-write the country’s constitution, the party continues to be the overwhelmingly dominant player in the Turkish political landscape.


• As was inevitably the case with Turkey’s position towards Libya following prolonged civil conflict in the country, Ankara’s position towards Syria is slowly but surely adjusting towards a tougher stance


• Turkey continues to keep one foot in Nabucco’s door, and the other in bilateral energy arrangements with neighbouring states. READ MORE

• July 14, 2011

Must the world prepare itself for a nuclear Iran — and therefore a hot zone that stretches from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean?

• July 13, 2011

Japan has no choice but to reduce its reliance on nuclear power, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Tuesday, as the country battles to end a four-month-old radiation crisis at a tsunami-crippled nuclear plant.

• July 13, 2011

Boosting cooperation between countries sharing the waters of the Amu Darya, Central Asia's longest river, could be key to future peace and security in the region a new report launched today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says.

• July 13, 2011

Pakistan is pressing ahead with work on two transnational natural gas pipelines, and is talking about a third, as it looks to expand its regional influence after the war in Afghanistan, officials and analysts said.

• July 11, 2011

When the pro-Western national movement, the so-called revolution of “Roses,” caught fire and swept away the Soviet-style Georgian authorities in 2003, the revolutionary news captured the Lithuanian media’s front page headlines for many weeks to come.

• July 11, 2011