Brussels, 24/10/2013 (Agence Europe) - The European Union will examine when it is notified whether the plan by French companies EDF and Areva to build two pressurised water reactor (PWR) nuclear power plants in the United Kingdom with Chinese partners complies with the EU state aid rules, said Antoine Colombani, a spokesman for the EU Competition Commissioner, at a routine press conference on Tuesday 22 October.
Under a €18 billion agreement signed by the British government and EDF, the...