Meeting in Brussels for a mini-plenary session of the European Parliament on Thursday 24 March, MEPs called on the European Commission to start preparing now for a coordinated exit of EU Member States from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), in the event that the ECT modernisation process does not result in a sufficiently ambitious outcome for the EU. This was put forward in a debate with Commission Executive Vice-President for the Economy, Valdis Dombrovskis, and French Secretary of State for...