PRAGUE – After the June’s European elections, which sent representatives from only four political parties to the new European parliament, early national elections are on the way in the Czech Republic. Will the big players eliminate the liberal-oriented Green party from the political limelight?

KEDZIERZYN, Poland – A source close to a transaction a concerning carbon capture and storage (CCS) installation in Kędzierzyn in Southern Poland revealed that Shell was the most serious candidate to build the equipment. However Krzysztof Jałosiński, president of Zakłady Azotowe Kędzierzyn (ZAK’) one the country’s largest chemical producers, told the newspaper "Rzeczpospolita" that there are several candidates, Shell and GE (General Electric) among them.

The CC9 climate conference took place the 4.th and 5.th of June at Hafslund Hovedgård in Sarpsborg, Norway, and presented a set of recommendations for the negotiations to take place in Copenhagen in December. Here are some selected speeches and interviews:

Several Russian nuclear power plants claim they have been the target of a so-called information terror campaign spreading false information about an alleged nuclear accident, according to the country's nuclear powr plant operator, Energoatom.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said his country could give up nuclear weapons if everyone else that had them did the same, world news agencies reported late Wednesday.

Nizhniy Novgorod AtomEnergoProekt has won the tender as principal contractor for the construction of the third and fourth reactors at the Volgodonsk nuclear power plant in Russia. The company has also completed assembling the initial reactor for Russia's first floating nuclear power plant.