Az oroszok ellen bevezetett szankciók krízishelyzetet teremtettek Oroszországban, amiből az ország győztesként kerülhet ki – írja a Rusvesna Kenneth Rapoza, a Forbes rovatvezetőjére hivatkozva, aki cikkében arról írt, hogy az oroszok elleni szankciók nem hozták meg a várt eredményeket, ezért Európa idővel el fogja törölni azokat. Ezen a véleményen van Alekszander Sohin, az Orosz Gyáriparosok és Vállalkozók Szövetségének elnöke is, aki szerint a szankciók eltörlése negatívan hatna az orosz vállalatokra. „Az orosz vállalatok csak most kezdték meg az importpótlás ciklusát, és még nem érték el a tervezett szintet” – mondja Sohin. Igor Suvalov, az orosz miniszterelnök első helyettese szerint az orosz vállalatok 2017 környékén kerülnek a fejlődés újabb szakaszába.
On Tuesday, Frans Timmermans, the European Commission’s first vice president who has been tasked with streamlining and overhauling the way Brussels operates, presented one of his signature initiatives – the so-called “better regulation” package aimed at scrutinising more carefully the rules Brussels imposes on businesses.
As the FT wrote after our hour-long interview with Timmermans, he is a relatively late convert to the Brussels reformist camp, having changed his view after a lot of soul-searching in 2005, when his native Netherlands voted against an EU constitutional treaty that he himself helped negotiate.
Perhaps Timmermans’ most notable contribution to the EU reform debate since then was a June 2013 Dutch government report he helped author that spelled out 54 different policy areas that should not be ceded to Brussels. Now Timmermans gets to practice what he preached – even more so, now that David Cameron, the newly re-elected British prime minister, has launched his attempt to renegotiate Britain’s relationship with the EU focused on many of the same reform issues. Timmermans is widely expected to be the European Commission’s point man in those talks with London.
As is frequently our practice at the Brussels Blog, below we offer an annotated transcript of our interview. Timmermans’ responses have been slightly edited for clarity. We started with that 2013 Dutch report, since much of what Timmermans recommended back then appears to be part of his agenda now that he’s in Brussels – ideas that were also articulated in a November 2013 op-ed in the FT.
I didn’t know you would bring this up but you do because it clearly shows that what I think and what I want to do is more or less in line with what I proposed as foreign minister, and those who say, well, ‘He’s only doing this to appease David Cameron’ can see that I’ve been thinking about this for quite some time.
Actually, it all started with an op-ed that I wrote in your newspaper, and Jean-Claude Juncker picked up on that and when he asked me to do this with him, he referred to some of the ideas that I had written down in the Financial Times. So, this was very much part of his thinking and his programme, as it was in Martin Schulz’s thinking, and this is what they both brought forward in the electoral campaign.
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