The European Union has successfully completed its enlargement to Central Eastern Europe. By 2007, almost all former Warsaw Pact “allies” of the ex-Soviet Union will be fully integrated in the EU. The enforced EU is now determined to define and structure its common foreign and defence policy....

Russland versucht seit Beginn des Jahres 2006 die Spielregeln auf dem internationalen Energiemarkt zu seinen Gunsten zu verändern und seine reichhaltigen Erdgas- und Erdölreserven für eine Rückkehr als Großmacht auf internationaler Ebene zu instrumentalisieren. Der Westen hat wenig Zeit,...

Since early 2006, Russia has been attempting to change the rules on the international energy market to suit its own interests, with the ultimate goal of utilising its rich oil and gas reserves as an instrument to re-establish itself as a major player at the international level. The West has only...