EU PRESIDENCY REVEALS POST-UKRAINE GAS CRISIS STRATEGY
January 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CZECH presidency of the European Union (EU) has said it will redouble its aims to push ahead with planned energy reforms to strengthen the EU's ability to withstand the recurrence of a crisis such as the recent Russia-Ukraine gas row.
In a meeting of the EU Council of Ministers (general affairs), the Czech deputy prime minister Alexandr Vondra said there were "areas where [his government] intends work to be speeded up and given the highest priority."
These included reaching an agreement by the end of March with the European ...
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.