GREENS/SUMMIT : UNION MUST BE COHERENT ON ENERGY, SAY GREENS.
Europe Environment, March, 2008
Calling for a "common energy policy," the Greens group in the European Parliament was urging the EU's heads of state and government to reject the current national tactics, on the occasion of their summit on 13 and 14 March in Brussels.
"Member states cannot have a summit where they talk with a single voice one day, then negotiate individual interests the next," stresses Claude Turmes (Luxembourg), citing in particular the Russo-German Nord Stream pipeline, which will take Russian gas under the Baltic Sea.
"The Nord Stream and South Stream pipelines clearly symbolise the absence of a common policy on energy supply security," he adds. He also warns against the strategy of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, which would consist of the import and export of...
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