BULGARIA DEMANDS EXTRA MONEY FOR KOZLODUY CLOSURE
June 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BULGARIAN government is pushing the European Commission for another Euro 550 million at least to compensate it for the forced closure of its Kozloduy nuclear power complex. Its economy and energy minister Petar Dimitrov told an intelligent energy national information day ceremony the Euro 550 million already pledged to the Kozloduy International Fund (Euro 300 million has been used) was not nearly enough. Dimitrov said Bulgaria would apply for more European Union financing to "double at least" the fund's budgets.
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THE BULGARIAN government is pushing the European Commission for another Euro 550 million at least to compensate it for the forced closure of its Kozloduy nuclear power complex. Its economy and energy minister Petar Dimitrov told an intelligent energy national information day ceremony the Euro 550 million already pledged to the Kozloduy International Fund (Euro 300 million has been used) was not nearly enough. Dimitrov said Bulgaria would apply for more European Union financing to "double at least" the fund's budgets.
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