SECURITY OF SUPPLY ROW
April 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Parliament has surrendered in its row with the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers over whether MEPs can veto pared-back legislation to help guarantee gas supplies during a European energy crisis. Proposals last year by the European Commission to be granted reserve powers to direct gas around Europe during serious supply shortages were successfully resisted by the parliament. But it was so successful that the Council of Ministers later concluded the legislation had been transformed into an innocuous administrative matter, over ...
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