Completing his mission in Latvia and moving to the post in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Consul of the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Lithuania with residence in Latvia, Aksar Makhmutov held a reception.

Regional development in the EU has acquired a particular attention in the Union policies after the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. Since then, major attention in the Union’s support for social and economic development in European regions has transformed both the Union’s budget and the policy coordination. A new publication provides a fresh insight into the „regions’ opportunities“ for theory and practice of European integration.

At the end of 2010, at the request of 12 member states, the Commission proposed an idea of enhanced cooperation in the area of European „unitary patent protection“. Soon after, another 13 Member States submitted their request to join the enhanced cooperation. The European Parliament gave its consent during spring 2011. The Competitiveness Council finally authorised the launch of enhanced cooperation with the participation of 25 EU member states.

The EU Single Market strategy is still the nucleus and the core economic driving force in European integration. It also remains the most effective means of responding to the current economic crisis. In mid-April 2011, the Commission adopted „strategic aims“ for the optimization of the Single Market, SM, which consisted of 12 main „projects“ providing stimulus for prospective growth in 2012. Twelve instruments of growth, competitiveness and social progress range from worker mobility to SME finance and consumer protection, via digital content, taxation and trans-European networks.

Since the Lisbon Treaty entered into force at the end of 2009, the European Union has become a legal entity, i.e. a Community that could enter into international agreements on behalf of the EU-27 member states. This fact addressed an important issue of correlations between the EU law and international legal order. Several EU Commissioners perform international functions.

2010-2014 Secretary -referent of the Russian Embassy in Latvia.

On the 19th May, at the invitation of Mottra Executive Board, the Members of Diplomatic Economic Club have visited the caviar processing factory that is located near Riga.

Именно Зигмунт Бауман ввел в оборот понятие «глобализация», один из крупнейших мировых философов-постмодернистов, больше говорит о «междуцарствии» — ситуации сродни революционной: верхи глобального мира уже не могут, а низы не хотят жить по-старому. Что дальше? Устоят ли государства, не распадется ли мир на национальные диаспоры?

2010 — 2013 Заместитель главы миссии, Посольство Королевства Норвегии в Риге