Germany to Withdraw from Energy Charter?

The German coalition government has threatened to withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty and abstain in the Council vote intended to allow the European Union to adopt ECT reform outcomes at the Energy Charter Conference on 22 November. This was communicated by the leader of German Greens in parliament, Katharina Dröge via Twitter. Her deputy…

#FloodTheCOP

Nigeria Floods

Amidst the formal agenda on the UN climate negotiations in Egypt, hundreds of people led by seven women from the Global South made a dramatic and powerful show of force recreating flooding in order to raise awareness about the heavy climate change impacts many people are living through in low income countries on the frontlines. …

Strengthening partnership in Central Asia and prospects for cooperation with France

T~he New Uzbekistan

With the election of Shavkat Mirziyoyev as head of state in 2016, the internal and foreign policy of Uzbekistan has changed drastically, writes Anwar Nasirov. The leader of Uzbekistan has begun the implementation of a huge range of large-scale reforms aimed at modernizing all spheres of society and the state, which should ensure the sustainable…