The fourth round of negotiations on the modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), which began on 2 March, reportedly ended without any major breakthrough on Friday 5 March. This stalemate is beginning to annoy some Member States in the European Union.
“I deeply regret that no progress has been made in the 4th round of the Energy Charter Treaty modernisation process on phasing out fossil fuels”, Luxembourg’s Minister for Energy and Spatial Planning, Claude Turmes, said on...