EU-RUSSIA ENERGY SUMMIT – GAS PIPELINE DEBATE
June 1st, 2006
STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE LATEST energy summit between the European Union (EU) and Russia has given President Vladimir Putin an opportunity to underline Russian power over the EU regarding natural gas supplies. Politely rebuffing European Commission requests for direct EU access to Russia's gas pipeline networks, he said after the meeting in Sochi, on the Black Sea coast: "If our European partners expect us to let them into the most sacred part of our economy - energy - then we expect the same steps from them in the most critical and important areas for ...
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