FRENCH GOVERNMENT RESISTS UNBUNDLING OF ENERGY COMPANIES
February 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE INDUSTRY minister of the French government is staging an unrelenting campaign against European Commission proposals to unbundle Europe's energy giants into production and distribution arms. François Loos has spoken in the France National Assembly against the idea, and has written to various EU media outlets. In a letter to EU energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, Loos said France agreed the EU energy sector had "disfunctions", but that he "diverged regarding the identification of the causes and the remedies". He continued: "We do not ...
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