SECURITY OF SUPPLY

BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE STRING of power failures that recently hit Italy, Germany, Britain and other European countries has pushed the need to guarantee the security of the European Union's (EU) energy supply up the agenda of the EU's current Italian presidency. Indeed, it has used its control over the business of EU Council of Ministers meetings to agree with energy Commissioner Loyola de Palacio that the next energy council on December 4-5 will deal the issue. She and Italy's industry minister Antonio Marzano said that the council meeting would "deal with the ...


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