Continuation of the gas transit via Ukraine remains a strategic priority for the European Union (EU) in the context of its relations with Russia’s Gazprom, European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic has said. He said that earlier the EU executive body discussed a request of Germany’s Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post…
The EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Herbert Salber will visit Azerbaijan in late October, Salber’s press service reported. Salber will hold a number of official meetings, at which the sides will discuss bilateral relations. It is also expected to discuss the situation around the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The conflict between the two South Caucasus…
The hot dry summer in the Black Sea region is stirring concerns for the next winter wheat crop, as the European Commission warns on Russian prospects after a hot dry summer. While US wheat sowings are expected to fall sharply this year, in response to low prices, sowings in Russia are expected to boom, thanks…
Romanian farmers have finished rapeseed harvesting. 2016 rapeseed harvesting campaign was the most productive ever in Romania. For more than 20 years rapeseed acreage in Romania has been expanded to the third largest acreage over the reporting period. In autumn 2015, sowing was carried out at the optimum seeding time. In general, wintering of this…
Precipitation deficit at the background of excessive air temperatures in several Black Sea countries, particularly in Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine, raise market operators` concerns as to the volume of Black Sea corn supply in 2016/2017. But major attention is focused on Bulgaria and Romania, due to the fact that precipitation quantity has been lower in…