RUSSIAN FEARS MAKE EASTERN EUROPEANS INTO GAS LIBERALISERS
April 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DELICATE state of European Union (EU) and Russia diplomatic and energy relations has been illustrated starkly by the inclusion of eastern European gas interconnection projects within the European economic stimulus package. National governments of these new EU member states threatened to torpedo the entire agreement - seen as the lynchpin of European efforts to shake off the recession - if their gas schemes were not included. And it was not just a case of national one-upmanship. These governments really wanted these interconnectors. Why? ...
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