EU ENERGY GREEN PAPER APPROVAL EU HEADS OF GOVERNMENT SUMMIT
March 1st, 2006
BY ALAN OSBORN
A new EU energy policy involving investment of some 1,000 billion euros in infrastructure and technologies is expected to be approved in broad outline by the EU heads of government at their summit in Brussels later this month though a major dispute over the cross-border take-over of key companies is still unsettled. Energy ministers of the 25 member states plus Romania and Bulgaria, who will join next year, agreed the plan's broad outlines last week (March 14th) on the basis of a European Commission Green Paper identifying steps to be taken to ...
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