Brussels [ENA] This meeting was brief – as brief as it was effective. Good preparation at different levels during the last week, and the very fact of having this meeting, allowed for good results. Heads of States discussed two issues of critical importance for citizens and our economies: taxation and energy. To start on tax evasion and tax fraud, where it is high time to step up the fight.   [Full story...]

B [ENA] On 17 May 2013, the European Union and the Russian Federation held their seventeenth round of human rights consultations in Brussels, allowing the EU to raise its growing concerns on the developments affecting human rights in the Russian Federation. Both sides discussed at length the worrying situation of civil society in the Russian Federation, in particular the wave of restrictive legislation,   [Full story...]