Meeting in Strasbourg for a plenary session of the European Parliament, MEPs adopted on Thursday 24 November a resolution calling on the European Commission to immediately initiate the process of a coordinated exit of the European Union from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), in force since 1998.
According to Parliament, this international agreement to protect investments in the energy sector is now “an outdated instrument, which no longer serves the interests of the European Union”.
The...