Eastern Partnership, energy security, commerce and competitiveness will be among priorities of Polish presidency of the EU due to start on July 1, 2011, deputy Polish Prime Minister and Economy Minister Waldemar Pawlak said Monday.

• May 11, 2010

Firms in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster will present conflicting claims at the first US Senate hearing, US media say.

• May 11, 2010

President Barack Obama revives a civilian nuclear energy pact with Moscow shelved after the Russia-Georgia war of 2008.

• May 11, 2010

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych responded coolly Thursday to a Russian proposal to merge the two countries' gas companies, saying even his Kremlin-friendly administration might ignore the idea.

• May 8, 2010

Colombian coal is continuing to head to Asia which is keeping availability tight in Europe and underpinning high prices. Colombian coal is flowing to east Asian countries such as China, South Korea and Taiwan, where it is delivered at a discount of as much as USD 15 per tonne to coal loading at Newcastle in Australia and Richards Bay in South Africa.

• May 8, 2010

Energy-rich Azerbaijan is ready to supply half its natural gas extracts to the Western-backed Nabucco pipeline intended to pump gas to Europe, a presidential administration official said on Thursday. Nabucco, whose planned pipeline would bypass Russia, is a rival project to the Kremlin-backed South Stream gas pipeline.

• May 8, 2010

Bulgaria has reportedly unsuccessfully courted Romania as it angles for a new chief investor in its second nuclear power plant Belene to replace the German energy company RWE, which withdrew last autumn.

• May 7, 2010

WITH the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf, talk has once again turned to clean energy. What few people appreciate is that the demand for everything from solar panels to energy-efficient light bulbs is already booming. Worldwide, $162 billion was spent in new clean-tech investments in 2009 alone.

• May 7, 2010