Ukraine's parliament adopted law enabling more than 20 sanctions to be applied against Russia, including a halt to energy transit through the country.  The sanction options include blocking and freezing assets, a ban on business activity in Ukraine, barring participation in privatizations, halting t...

Czech government after its meeting on 8th August published review of its planned and carried out measures and actions within government priorities framework. Among other things Ministry of Finance cancelled the act that introduced so called Single Collection Point, introduced stricter rules on self-...

Insiders have reported that talks on the EU-Canada free trade agreement were finalized on 5 August. The talks started in 2009 and political agreement on key issues was reached in October 2013. Now the text of the deal should be ready for final legal review and translation into the 23 EU official lan...

In reaction to EU and USA introducing further sanctions on Wednesday 6th August the Russian president Vladimir Putin signed decree banning or restricting import of agricultural production from the countries that adopted sanctions against Russia. The decree is to be valid for a year. This ban will af...