EU ROUND UP – RUSSIA EU ENERGY DIVERSIFICATION CALL – BIOFUEL PRODUCTION INCREASE
June 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN UNPRECEDENTED joint paper from the European Commission and European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Javier Solana calls for the EU to diversify its energy sources beyond Russia. In particular, the paper suggests the EU looks closer to home: at Algeria and Turkey. Algeria already supplies 10% of EU, but this could be doubled, and then "Algeria could be compared to Russia", said the paper. EU membership applicant Turkey is highlighted as a potential energy hub, funnelling gas and oil from the Middle East and central Asia towards ...
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