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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9103

6 January 2006
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/energy
Piebalgs says Commission interested in gas pipeline via Turkey; he also wants nuclear power in EU to be maintained

Brussels, 05/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - In an interview published in the Austrian daily der Standard on 4 January, European Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, when questioned on the proposed “Nabucco” gas pipeline across Turkey, answered that “Nabucco” was “not an alternative” (to supplies of Russian gas, following the Russo-Ukrainian dispute, resolved only in the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, see EUROPE 9102), but contributed to the widening of the EU's gas supply. He went on to say...