Videos leaked, revealing comments of both U.S. and EU diplomacy on situation in Ukraine. In the first video, the American assistant secretary of state for European affairs Victoria Nuland, dismissed European efforts in Ukraine as weak and inadequate to the challenge posed by the Kremlin. Voice resem...

The Chamber of Deputies discussed a private members’ Bill on the Rules of Procedure of the Chamber of Deputies. The Bill was put forward by a group of currently governmental and also oppositional deputies. They proposed the Bill at the very beginning of the electoral term (in November 2013); there i...

Presidents of the European Commission and of the European Council, J. M. Barroso and H. Van Rompuy, met on 28 January in Brussels with Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation to discuss a number of issues during the 32nd EU-Russia summit. These included the Eastern Partnership, counter-t...

In his fifth State of the Union address, President Obama announced plan to sign an executive order raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour for future federal contract workers. He advocated similar proposal last year. However, it never passed through opposition in Congress. On Tuesday he pledged t...