FRANCE – ENERGY
March 1st, 2002
BY ALAN OSBORNA PARTIAL agreement on the opening of France's highly protected energy markets appears to have been the main achievement by EU leaders at their summit in Barcelona this weekend (March 15-16th); importantly, France won an assurance that it could protect disadvantaged citizens and rural areas from the effects of liberalisation.French president Jacques Chirac and prime minister Lionel Jospin agreed to liberalise the French gas and electricity markets for business customers by 2004, leaving a deal on household supply to be dealt with by the end of this ...
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