OSCE New Media Accreditation Procedure begins on 15 April 2015
Bona fide representatives of the media – print media, photo, radio, television and film, news agencies and online media – can now apply for yearly accreditation to OSCE events in Vienna. For the yearly Media Accreditation, applicants need to provide the following: Completed accreditation form A letter of assignment on official...
OSCE-supported Aarhus Centres discuss their role in trans-boundary water management in South-East Europe
TIRANA, 26 March 2015 – More than 40 representatives of central and local governments, Aarhus Centres and civil society from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia discussed the challenges of public participation in trans-boundary water management and in trans-boundary Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) processes at a two-day...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 25 March 2015
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the Implementation of the Minsk agreements”. The SMM, based on its monitoring – which was restricted by third parties and by security considerations* – observed that fighting continued around the Donetsk airport. In the area of...
Dangers facing journalists must not be ignored, safety of journalists remains high on OSCE agenda, says Chairperson Dačić
BELGRADE, 26 March 2015 – Violence against journalists is unacceptable and must be treated like violence against society as a whole, said the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić, today at the opening of a two-day OSCE conference on the Protection of safety and integrity of journalists in the OSCE region. The...
German Power and the Ukraine Conflict
The Ukraine crisis has revealed both the strengths of German foreign policy-diplomatic skill and economic power-and its weakness-a lack of military muscle. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
The EU Eastern Partnership Needs More Attention to Security
On March 6-7, 2015, the EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs reached the conclusion that the EU Eastern Partnership (EaP) requires transformation and further development. The current situation in the EaP Region, frozen conflicts, and aggression against Ukraine demands more attention to the security dimension of the EU initiative and it is very...
Eurozone officials dash Greek hopes of securing €1.2bn from bailout fund
Eurozone officials dash Greek hopes of securing €1.2bn from bailout fundOfficials in the Eurogroup Working Group (EWG) agreed in a teleconference yesterday that Greece has no right to tap €1.2bn from the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), one of the Eurozone’s bailout funds. The Greek government claimed that it had overpaid the...
The Euro Area is continuing its cautious recovery – Finland’s GDP will finally return to growth
The euro area is continuing its cautious recovery, the US economy is undergoing a strong upswing, China’s growth is subsiding. Finland’s GDP will grow 0.5 per cent in 2015 and 1.6 per cent in 2016. The volume of exports will increase by one per cent in 2015; growth is expected to be approximately 3.5 per cent in 2016. Private...
Small and Mid-size Business in Ukraine: analysis and road map
Language English CASE launched a study on SME’s situation in Ukraine. The publication was issued within the project ‘Transfer of Know-How for Small and Mid-size Businesses in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine’, which aims to assist SMEs in those countries by providing support to stakeholders in their efforts to develop analytical and...
[Translate to English:] Identität und Gewalt in der Ukraine
[Translate to English:] Die Ukraine durchläuft seit Ausbruch der Majdan-Proteste Ende 2013 einen tiefgreifenden gesellschaftlichen Wandel. Dabei sind konsolidierende, aber auch polarisierende Tendenzen zu erkennen. Die »Revolution der Würde” ebenso wie die Verletzung der territorialen Integrität des Landes durch Russland haben deutlich dazu...