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"This provision would mean the amnesty for all top corrupt officials, cases against whom were transferred to the courts. Such a step is a blatant change of previous agreements and the text itself right before the voting," said the head of ANTAC's Vitaliy Shabunin in the statement. "This clause was missing in the comparative table, published on the web-site of the Verkhovna Rada, meaning the appellate procedure was foreseen in the anticorruption court."
This clause also means that verdicts against top officials will be delivered not earlier than in two to three years. Establishment of the court will take at
Denmark the last to approve Russia's Nord Stream 2, as Sweden finds "no reason" to ban the pipeline
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Denmark is the last hold out in Europe yet to give permission for the construction of the controver- sial Nord Stream 2 pipeline after the Swedish gov- ernment became the latest EU country to sign off on construction permissions for the pipeline that will carry Russian gas from the Yamal peninsula under the Baltic Sea to Germany.
The gas pipeline runs through the Swedish eco- nomic zone in the Baltic Sea and Minister of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Mikael Damberg told the press on June 7 that Sweden sees “no reason” for refusing permission for the pipeline’s construction.
Germany has already signed off permits for the construction of the terminal in its territory and
least half a year, while consideration of the cases in both instances of the anticorruption court in its turn will last for around one and a half to two years, according to the NGO.
"This mistake should be urgently corrected by voting for the necessary amendments to the law. The provision postpones verdicts in NABU cases for few more years. That is why the President
has to submit urgently amendments to the law to correct the mistake," Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, head of the Ukrainian office of Transparency International, said in the statement.
Sweden has signed off on construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline construction leading Denmark as the last holdout.
broke ground on the work in April. However, several EU countries, led by Poland, have strongly objected to the pipeline, which bypasses their countries and will effectively bring to an end Ukraine’s five-decades role as a transit country for Russian gas headed to western Europe.
"The government has given permission for the Nord Stream 2, to lay a gas pipeline in the Swed- ish economic zone in the Baltic Sea, Sweden just cannot reject this project," Damberg said
as cited by Tass.
Yet the minister indicated conflict within Stock- holm over the project. Damberg emphasised that the Swedish "government has a negative attitude towards the project as a whole, since there is a