Alexander Stubb, famous in the Barents Region for branding the north as the world´s most sexy region, is put on track to take over after Jyrki Katainen.
Deputy Speaker in the regional parliament of Arkhangelsk, Antonina Dracheva, says the strained economy has made the regional administration unable to pay its salaries.
Close and coordinated cooperation between Russia and Norway will have major importance for the development of the Arctic, President Medvedev highlighted ahead of today’s meeting with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.
Leading the EU through the financial and economic crisis, dealing with the problem of increasing unemployment and continuing the work to tackle climate change are the top priorities for the EU chairmanship period which started July 1.
Arkhangelsk Oblast is hardly known for its free and fair political elections. Still, the regional administration now intends to let young people in the region themselves elect the next minister of youth affairs.
Just few weeks before Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrives in Oslo for a state visit, both Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and Russia’s Vladimir Putin highlight the positive dynamics in talks over the disputed waters in the Barents Sea.
- A trade agreement between the European Free Trade Association (EFTA countries) and Russia has high priority for Norway, and we support Russian membership in the WTO, Jens Stoltenberg said at a large business conferance in Oslo on Monday.
None of the Russian Governors attended last week’s Barents Regional Council in Tromsø. Now, the speaker of the Murmansk Regional Duma, Yevgeny Nikora, invites all top regional politicians to exchange views on the current and future development of the cooperation.
Italy will raise the issue of visa-free travel between Russia and the EU in all European Union arenas, President Silvio Berlusconi assured Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev last week.
ARKHANGELSK: The preparations to the official opening of Norway’s honorary consulate are in full swing. The opening of the new Norwegian representation office in the Barents Region’s largest town takes place this Friday.
A statement from the Barents Regional Council stresses that the European Parliament must include the regional level in their upcoming Arctic strategy debates.
