France's energy giant EDF has refused a Russian offer to build a nuclear power plant, Lithuania's Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said after meeting his French counterpart Francois Fillon.

• Date: 03.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 03.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from expatica.com

Turkey has decided that it will not renew for another five years a 25-year-old natural gas deal with Russia on the grounds that the energy-rich country’s supplier Gazprom has declined to discount the natural gas it sells to Turkey via the Russia-Turkey Western Pipeline, Today’s Zaman reported.

• Date: 03.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 03.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from apa.az

The Russian Federation’s ambassador to Belarus Alekhandr Surikov told reporters in the Belarusian capital Minsk that a draft Belarusian-Russian interstate agreement on the construction of a new 2,400 megawatt nuclear power plant for Belarus will be ready in October.

• Date: 01.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 01.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from oilprice.com

Belarus withdrew Friday from a diplomatic summit meeting aimed at improving ties between the European Union and its former Soviet neighbors, complaining of “discrimination.”

• Date: 01.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 01.10.2011  |  External Relations  |  from nytimes.com

The European Union is interested in attracting Kazakh investments to purchase Eurobonds and other debt instruments of European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) backed by the guarantees of eurozone states, Kazinform reported.

• Date: 01.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 01.10.2011  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

Polish capital Warsaw hosts the summit of the European Union’s 'Eastern Partnership'

• Date: 30.09.2011  |  Published on EGF: 30.09.2011  |  External Relations  |  from siamdailynews.com

Kyrgyzstan's acting Deputy Prime Minister Omurbek Babanov says neighboring Kazakhstan has agreed to sell natural gas to Kyrgyzstan at a much lower price than Kyrgyzstan has been paying to Uzbekistan for gas supplies.

• Date: 30.09.2011  |  Published on EGF: 30.09.2011  |  Energy  |  from rferl.org

EU leaders head to Poland today faced with the tricky task of re-energising relations with the bloc’s eastern neighbours. Democracy and human rights abuses look set to dominate the two day Eastern Partnership summit, with events in Ukraine causing particular concern.

• Date: 30.09.2011  |  Published on EGF: 30.09.2011  |  External Relations  |  from euronews.net