Before passing the baton on to Austria, on 1 July, the Bulgarian presidency of the Council of the EU launched trialogue discussions with negotiators from the European Parliament, headed by Krisjanis Karins (EPP, Latvia), on Wednesday 27 June. Discussion was on the texts proposed by the European Commission end 2016 – a revised directive on common rules for the electricity market and a revised regulation on the electricity market – for “electricity market redesign”.
“The first...