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EU diplomats back move to ease sanctions on Russian firmsThe EU and its members are committed to maintaining a robust transatlantic economic sanctions regime against Russia, ; the diplomats wrote. Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInPeople walk past the aluminium giant United Company RUSAL headquarters in Moscow on April 9, 2018 | stanley becher Vasily Maximov/AFP via Getty ImagesJanuary 11, 20198:32 pm CETBy Martin MatishakEU Ambassador to the U.S. David OSullivan and several other top diplomats have endorsed a move by the U.S. Treasury Department to delist Russian aluminum giant Rusal, a company owned by a Russian oligarch with close ties to Vladimir Putin.In a January 4 letter to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the envoys argue that since sanctions were imposed on the company last year, aluminum plants throughout Europe have faced increased prices and significant challenges such as maintaining operations, brokering deals and retaining customers.The easing of sanctions on Rusal and En+ Group, the holding company that owns about half of Rusal and is also linked to the oligarch Oleg Deripaska, will safeguard these plants and the livelihoods of 75,000 workers across the EU and preserve existing supply chains which would otherwise likely be routed by China, the missive states.AdvertisementAdvertisementThe let stanley termosar ter was sent before Treasury Secr stanley cup etary Steven Mnuchin trekked to Capitol Hill on Thursday Osra Commission in the dock over secrecy
Constitutional reform under threatConstitutional reform in stanley water bottle Bosnia and Herzegovina is under threat, according to the international community envoy.Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInJune 17, 200910:12 pm CETBy Toby VogelThe future of constitutional reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina hangs in the balance after the parliam stanley cup ent of Republika Srpska, the Serb-dominated half of Bosnia, failed to meet an 11 June deadline to rescind a law it passed in May reclaiming powers from the central government. The deadline was set by Valentin Inzko, the EUs and international communitys envoy to Bosnia and Herzegovina, who believes the countrys constitutional set-up needs reform. Taking back powers Although Inzko has the power to quash laws if they violate the Dayton peace accords of 1995, the Republika Srpska parliament refused to budge and, on 12 June, Milorad Dodik, the regions prime minister, said nothing could stop Republika Srpska from taking back those powers. Inzko, who is the EUs special representative and head of the Office of the High Representative OHR , has so far taken no action. An observer suggested that Inzko felt he lacked the backing of the OHRs steering board, most of whose European member governments oppose the use of his extensive powe stanley isolierkanne rs. These include the right to dismiss elected officials, such as Dodik. AdvertisementAdvertisementDodiks defiance prompted Sulejman Tihic麓, the moderate leader of the mainly Bosniak Bosnian Musli |
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