IEA DIRECTOR SAYS THE EU MUST INVEST IN INTERCONNECTORS TO MAKE ENERGY UNION WORK
February 8th, 2015
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) should invest in gas interconnections between member states to make its mooted EU Energy Union a success, the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) has claimed. Speaking (Feb 6) at a conference on the topic in Riga, Latvia, Maria van der Hoeven, said: “If done right, [the Energy Union] could be enormously beneficial to the region in terms of boosting economic growth, promoting energy security, completing the internal market and encouraging investment.”However, she warned that “in terms of energy, it sometimes ...
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