EU ROUND UP – BRUSSELS PUSHES AHEAD WITH MAJOR EUROPEAN ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
March 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH a new European Commission in office, major decisions can now be made on pushing ahead with European Union (EU) energy policy priorities: Brussels has released a Euro 4 billion package of 31 gas infrastructure (and 12 electricity) projects. Noting this was largest amount of money the EU has ever spent on energy infrastructure, Commission president José Manuel Barroso said the EU had "learnt the lessons" of recent gas supply crises, and hence was devoting "major financial assistance to new energy infrastructure projects". ...
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