Aggressive post-election anti-foreign rhetoric could hamper Russia’s relations with the EU

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While Mikhail Saakashvili is sure that a visa-free regime won’t result in wide-scale emigration from Georgia

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German expert on the Caucasus from the Berlin ‘Science and Politics” Foundation, Professor Hoeve Halbach shared his view of the ongoing processes on the South and North Caucasus with a VK correspondent. Today we publish the second part of the interview, touching upon the EU energy policy in the South Caucasian region as well as the foreign politics strategy of Azerbaijan.

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Croatian President Ivo Josipovic, whose country started membership talks with the EU about the same time as Turkey but which completed its accession talks in June of this year, has said the EU shouldn't put up new obstacles and conditions with regard to Turkish membership, in an exclusive interview with Today's Zaman.
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The Georgian government has indicated its intention several times to integrate into European space.

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Comments by EU's top diplomat Catherine Ashton which has backed Georgia's territorial claims to South Ossetia, may incite Georgia into new acts of aggression, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia said on Saturday, RIA Novosti reports.

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The European Union has imposed an arms embargo on Syria and will consider further sanctions against the regime in the coming days, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Saturday, RIA Novosti.

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EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby has completed his mandate that he held since 2006, he said this at the final press-conference in Baku on Saturday, Trend reports.  Semneby's mandate as special representative officially expires on February 28.

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European integration remains an Armenian foreign policy priority, as well as development of relations with the USA and Russia. Primeminister Tigran Sarkisyan has recently said that eurointegration has no alternatives. Director of the Institute for Caucasian studies, Alexander Iskandaryan, answers questions concerning relations between the EU and Armenia and prospects of Armenian integration into Europe.

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EU in much greater need of the Caucasus region than is the US

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