BALKANS ENERGY COMMUNITY AIMS TO LINK FRACTURED REGION’S POWER SUPPLY WITH WESTERN EUROPEAN NETWORKS
July 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE POLITICAL map of Europe these days looks very blue. Most of it (discounting Russia) is part of the European Union (EU) and those countries that have yet to join are increasingly the odd men out.
The European Commission and its fellow EU institutions are keen on some of these countries becoming members and less keen on others, but the countries that are almost destined to join the EU (if they want to) are those surrounded by EU territory.
That political map shows a sizeable bloc of such countries, in southeast Europe - much of the former ...
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