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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7891

29 January 2001
Contents Publication in full By article 24 / 55
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/energy
Liberalisation of electricity not comparable in Europe to California, says Commissioner de Palacio

Brussels, 29/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - Europe is not California, is what European Commissioner, Loyola de Palacio had to say in substance at the Forum of Davos, implicitly referring to the electricity cuts borne by Californians since the liberalisation of their electricity grid in 1996, and assuring her audience that "the great difference between the restructuring programme in Europe and in other regions, like the United States, is the presence of a binding legal framework, that lays down...

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