BRUSSELS PLOTS EURO 9.1 BILLION IN ENERGY INVESTMENT – BUT WILL IT GET ITS WAY?
March 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL AND CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
THE EUROPEAN Commission's plans to lavish Euro EUR9.1 billion on developing energy transmission networks that link the energy systems of the European Union's (EU) 27 member states go to the heart of the EU's raison d'être: that Europe's compact countries can achieve more in concert than in competition.
In the last century, coming out of two bloody European wars that cost millions their lives that argument was something of a no-brainer - but as new generations emerge knowing only relative wealth and comfort, the ...
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