EU, TURKEY PLEDGE SUPPORT FOR KEY GAS PIPELINE
June 1st, 2006
STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU), Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria have pledged support for the Nabucco pipeline carrying gas from Azerbaijan, bypassing Russia, increasingly viewed as an unreliable energy partner.
EU energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, and the five countries linked by the pipeline (also including EU member states Hungary and Austria) have signed a joint statement promising to "successfully complete" the project. Martin Bartenstein, economy minister for outgoing EU president Austria, said: "The Nabucco pipeline is one ...
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