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RUSSIA-UKRAINE GAS DISPUTE RESPONSE PRAISED BY EU GAS GROUP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MITIGATION measures taken by European Union (EU) utilities and member states to deal with the Russia-Ukraine gas crisis were effective, the EU’s Gas Coordination Group has concluded. Consisting of gas industry representatives from the EU’s 27 countries and chaired by the European Commission, the group concluded that protective steps taken "allowed most countries to successfully manage the situation in a way which is the least disruptive for their consumers".…
TURKEY TOBACCO SECTOR IS MONEY PIT, DESPITE GROWING HEALTH AND MARKETING CONTROLS
BY PAUL COCHRANE
TURKEY’S tobacco market, the eighth largest in the world and valued this month at GBPounds 6 billion in consumer price turnover by British American Tobacco (BAT) has contracted by 5% over the past year following the imposition of a nationwide smoking ban.…
POWER BOTTLENECKS AND CAPACITY SHORTAGES IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE IDENTIFIED IN PUSH TO FORGE REGIONAL ELECTRICITY MARKET
BY MARK ROWE
LAST month Modern Power Systems examined the workings of the pan-European ‘Energy Community’, which extends EU energy law eastwards to the membership hopefuls and encourages the region’s electricity transmission system operators and regulators to establish the cooperation and energy trading agreements and mechanisms by end of 2009.…
EU ROUND UP - EASTERN EUROPEAN ENERGY COMMUNITY GETS TEETH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Balkans ministerial council has approved the rules of a dispute settlement mechanism for countries participating within the southeast Europe Energy Community. This links Balkans’ gas (and electricity) regulation with that of EU member states and ensures EU energy legislation is adopted in participating countries.…
BRUSSELS APPROVES MAJOR STATE AID SUBSIDY FOR GERMAN SOLAR POWER PROJECT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Balkans ministerial council has approved the rules of a dispute settlement mechanism for countries participating within the southeast Europe energy community. This links Balkans’ electricity and gas regulation with that of EU member states and ensures EU energy legislation is adopted in participating countries.…
BALKANS ENERGY COMMUNITY AIMS TO LINK FRACTURED REGION'S POWER SUPPLY WITH WESTERN EUROPEAN NETWORKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE POLITICAL map of Europe these days looks very blue. Most of it (discounting Russia) is part of the European Union (EU) and those countries that have yet to join are increasingly the odd men out.
The European Commission and its fellow EU institutions are keen on some of these countries becoming members and less keen on others, but the countries that are almost destined to join the EU (if they want to) are those surrounded by EU territory.…
SOUTH EAST EUROPE ENERGY COMMUNITY AGREED DISPUTES SETTLEMENT SYSTEM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Balkans ministerial council has approved the rules of a dispute settlement mechanism for countries participating within the southeast Europe energy community. This links Balkans’ electricity and gas regulation with that of EU member states and ensures EU energy legislation is adopted in participating countries.…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION FUNDS DECOMMISSIONING OF AGED SERBIAN RESEARCH REACTOR
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has agreed to fund with US$8.63 million an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)-coordinated project to decommission Serbia’s ageing Vinca Institute research reactor. Work will start with repackaging old Soviet nuclear fuel for repatriation to Russia for reprocessing.…
EU ROUND UP - EU MAKES MAJOR STRIDES IN SECURING ENERGY SUPPLIES FROM NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH Dmitry Medvedev becoming Russia’s new president, the European Union (EU) has been pushing ahead to secure oil and gas supplies independent of Moscow. EU energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs and external relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner met with Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey diplomats and officials to discuss gas pipeline links.…
GREEKS' SOUTH-STREAM DEAL HARMS PROSPECTS OF NABUCCO CLAIM RUSSIANS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
GREECE has signed an agreement with Russia over routing the Moscow-Italy coordinated South Stream pipeline project through its territory, with outgoing Russian president Vladimir Putin denying it posed a threat to the rival Nabucco project. Putin told a Kremlin press conference with Greece prime minister Kostas Karamanlis that South Stream would be the "most optimal and competitive" pipeline system serving Europe, and would "help energy security".…