WASHINGTON, April 22 (UPI) -- The European Union, gazing hungrily at Central Asia's vast oil and natural gas deposits, has long sought to weaken Russia's grip over Caspian exports. Now the EU has succeeded in getting its nose under the Turkmen tent, and in Moscow Gazprom Chief Executive Officer Alexei Miller must be drowning his sorrows, as Russia provides about 40 percent of the EU's natural gas imports.

BERLIN, March 12 (UPI) -- Serbs, in the upcoming snap elections, will have to choose between closer ties with Europe or moving toward Russia, and thus further isolation.

Lithuania, Poland in energy talks; EU backs Nabucco Trans-Caspian gas pipeline; Syrian minister on oil, gas production, consumption;

BELGRADE, Serbia, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Serbia's government minister called on the European Union to cancel its planned security mission to the breakaway Kosovo province.

BERLIN, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Slovenia has become the first post-Communist state to take over the European Union's rotating six-month presidency, and it has set itself the difficult goal to help solve the Kosovo conflict.

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Slovenia has taken over a six-month European Union presidency that will see the issue of Serbia's breakaway Kosovo province as a major challenge.

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia, March 13 (UPI) -- Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel says Slovenia won't hinder Croatia's entry to the European Union over a bank dispute.