EU ROUND UP – EU MINISTERS OPPOSE WHOLESALE ENERGY UNBUNDLING
June 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN Union (EU) energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs has admitted that support for a comprehensive unbundling of EU energy suppliers and producers is weak within the EU Council of Ministers, signalling that he may have to water down planned tough draft proposals. Piebalgs' reaction followed a debate at the EU Council of Ministers for energy, where France and Germany led a sufficient number of countries in opposing outright unbundling for Piebalgs to be short of the votes he requires, despite robust backing from Britain, Ireland and the ...
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