EU HEADS OF GOVERNMENT GUN FOR AGREEMENT ON ENERGY PACKAGE THIS YEAR
March 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) heads of government have committed their ministers to securing agreement this year over the European Commission's recent renewable energy and climate change package proposals. The aim, said a communiqué from their annual Spring summit was formal approval for the legislation by early 2009.
Prime ministers and presidents from the 27 member states also gave policy guidance for these discussions, saying the resulting laws needed to be "transparent" and "cost-effective". There was also a nod to the need to ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.