Kazakhstan will finish the talks with the European Union and the United States on accessing issues to the World Trade Organization (WTO) by the end of this year, Kazakh Economic Development and Trade Minister Zhanar Aitzhanov said Thursday, Xinhua reported.

• Date: 12.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 12.11.2010  |  Markets  |  from trend.az

A U.S. official said on Wednesday Russia was warming to the idea of cooperation with NATO on a European missile defence system ahead of a summit next week expected to seal warmer relations between the Cold War rivals.

• Date: 11.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 11.11.2010  |  Markets  |  from reuters.com

Foreign energy companies with operations in Bulgaria are weighing up options to restructure their businesses or reconsider investment plans in an attempt to address the sector's stalled growth in Europe amid lowering electricity prices and slump in demand.

• Date: 11.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 11.11.2010  |  Markets  |  from sofiaecho.com

Finland has cleared the country's power grid operator, Fingrid [FGRDO.UL], to build a 320 million euro ($441 million) cable under the Baltic Sea linking it with Estonia, the government said

• Date: 11.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 11.11.2010  |  Energy  |  from reuters.com

A planned pipeline to ship Russian oil to Greece could pose an environmental threat, Bulgaria said Tuesday, effectively stalling the project days before talks with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

• Date: 10.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 10.11.2010  |  Energy  |  from france24.com

Tajikistan has emerged after a bloody civil war following independence, to become a functioning democracy that is a model for the region.

• Date: 10.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 10.11.2010  |  Energy  |  from hurriyetdailynews.com

The Bulgarian government has invited Croatia and Serbia to participate as shareholders in the construction of the nuclear power plant Belene on the Danube

• Date: 09.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 09.11.2010  |  Energy  |  from croatiantimes.com

Lithuania returns to plans of constructing a nuclear power plant in cooperation with Poland, Estonia and Latvia, and wants to select the strategic investor in November

• Date: 09.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 09.11.2010  |  Energy  |  from warsawvoice.pl