EUROPEAN COUNCIL : NGOS AND FEDERATIONS FORMULATE ENERGY SHOPPING LISTS.

Europe Energy, March, 2007

The Council's agreement on European energy policy has postponed important decisions on completing' the internal energy market and national targets for renewables. NGOs and federations thus continue to mark positions. On the thorny question of ownership unbundling, Eurelectric, for instance, published a heavily critical position paper, whilst member companies attempt to cut short the European Commission's arguments for ownership unbundling by presenting a regional model for "seamless cooperation between transmission system operators".

More or safeguarded jobs are on the shopping list of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). "The Council quite rightly stressed the potential employment-related and economic advantages that the EU could derive from making...