Friday, 29 03 2024
Friday, 29 03 2024
14:10
Vasquez and Nacho will also extend the contract with “Real.”
13:51
The new Ukrainian law discriminates against Russian speakers, Armenian speakers, and Roma
13:32
“It’s hard for me to stay in the football world.” Mkhitaryan gave a briefing
13:13
The Foreign Ministry of Latvia declared the Russian diplomat persona non grata
12:54
Armenia will send humanitarian aid to Gaza
12:35
Kroos will spend another year in Madrid
12:16
Weather without precipitation is expected
11:57
Georgia will receive 9.25 million euros from UEFA
11:38
Alen Simonyan presented the current security situation in the South Caucasus to his French colleagues
USA
11:19
“The main point of the US-Armenia-EU meeting is economic stability.” Miller
The Armenia-EU-USA meeting is not related to third countries
Nikol Pashinyan’s interview was published in The New York Times
10:22
Banks in Turkey, UAE, and China are delaying payments for Russian oil
“NATO member Turkey will not create problems in this case.” Edgar Vardanyan
18:55
The Prime Minister received the delegation led by the president of France-Armenia Inter-Paranial Friendship Group
18:36
Azerbaijan’s Sambo team refused to come to Yerevan
Mirzoyan visited the Argentine Council of International Relations
17:58
The number of victims of the “Crocus” terrorist attack has reached 140
17:39
I strongly doubt that if Turkey decides to attack Armenia, the Russian border guards will protect it
17:20
The Israeli army is attacking the “Nasser” hospital complex in southern Gaza
17:01
Armenia rejected the proposal of CSTO PA delegations
16:42
All participants of Euro 2024 are known (TEAMS)
16:23
“There is no discussion on EU membership at this stage.” Simonyan
16:04
Ukraine will receive a 1.5 billion loan from the World Bank
15:45
“I am looking for people to come and prove that it is the territory of Armenia.” Simonyan
15:26
There are demonstrations in Budapest demanding Orbán’s resignation
“We came out; I thanked you in the corridor.” Alen Simonyan about the meeting with Tikhanovskaya
14:48
The EU will not transfer 5 billion euros of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine
The French ambassador visited the Sotki gold mine with the members of the National Assembly
14:10
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan blamed the USA and the EU for helping Armenia

Putin vs. the European Competition Commission

Judy Dempsey (nonresident senior associate at Carnegie Europe and editor-in-chief of Strategic Europe) touched upon Putin’s approach to EU competition policy. Find the article below.
Is Vladimir Putin really going to take on the European Union’s Competition Commission? If so, the Kremlin should be careful that it has not bitten off more than it can chew.
The Commission and Russia’s Gazprom are now at loggerheads, as I explain in my latest Letter from Europe. At issue is how Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned energy company, allegedly abused its powerful position in Eastern and Central Europe by blocking competition.
The decision by DG Competition, as the Directorate General for Competition is known, to go after Gazprom is important for what is says about the Commission and what it means for Russia.
The Competition Commission is fiercely committed to fair competition. Remember how it challenged Microsoft. It also challenged Europe’s most powerful energy companies, especially in France and Germany over how they had sewn up the energy sector.
At one stage, say energy experts, DG Competition had such damning evidence of the big German energy companies abusing their market position that it proposed to make the reports public unless the companies changed their ways. The threat worked. Germany now has a competitive and open energy sector.
Gazprom is one of the last remaining energy companies on DG Competition’s list. While the company held a tight grip over the energy sector throughout most of Eastern Europe, in Western Europe, where it has subsidiaries, Gazprom has had to play by the rules in an increasingly competitive sector.
What these antitrust proceedings against Gazprom mean for Russia is another matter. Mr. Putin, so far, is standing firm.
But if — and this is a big if — Russia is serious about modernization, surely the Commission’s proceedings are a push in the right direction. After all, say analysts, modernization is not just about upgrading the country’s infrastructure. It is also about the rule of law, transparency and competition.
“It’s just so hard to tell if this case could be a tool for modernization,” said Szymon Kardas, a Russian expert at the Center for Eastern Studies in Warsaw. “There is already a debate amongst the Russia elites about how modernization would affect the Kremlin’s control over strategic sectors, such as energy.”
All the more reason to keep track of DG Competition’s proceedings against Gazprom.

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