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Energy News // 1 decade ago

Analysis: EU and Central Asian gas

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.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Analysis: Serbia at the crossroads

Serbs, in the upcoming snap elections, will have to choose between closer ties with Europe or moving toward Russia, and thus further isolation.

Energy News // 1 decade ago

UPI Energy Watch

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

Top News // 1 decade ago

Serbia: EU mission not welcome in Kosovo

Serbia's government minister called on the European Union to cancel its planned security mission to the breakaway Kosovo province.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Analysis: Slovenia in the EU driver's seat

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.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Slovenia takes over 6-month EU presidency

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.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Slovenia, Croatia argue over EU

Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel says Slovenia won't hinder Croatia's entry to the European Union over a bank dispute.

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It would be risky to say we are going to bring the treaty back to life when we are facing a blockade
Irish 'No' vote throws EU into crisis Jun 16, 2008

There have been attacks on this border, burning of containers and so on, so UNMIK has a very important role to play
Analysis: Serbia at the crossroads Mar 12, 2008

I hope we can contribute to resolving the Kosovo question during our presidency
Analysis: Slovenia in the EU driver's seat Jan 07, 2008

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Dimitrij Rupel (born April 7, 1946) is a Slovenian politician and the current Special Envoy for Foreign Affairs of the Prime Minister of Slovenia Borut Pahor.

Rupel was born in Ljubljana, in what was then the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, into a bourgeois family of former anti-fascist political emigrants from the Julian March (his grandfather was the last Slovene mayor of Duino in Austria-Hungary).

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