EUROPEAN CONVENTION

BY KEITH NUTHALLA SENIOR European Commission official has hit back at calls by environmental groups that the ongoing review of the European Union's treaties should lead to the abolition of special commitments supporting nuclear power.Instead, said François Lamoureux, Commission director-general for energy and transport, the 1957 Euratom treaty's main provisions should be preserved in any reforms proposed this summer by the European Convention, the review body tasked with renewing the EU's administrative structure.Writing in the Financial Times, M Lamoureux ...


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