SPECIAL EDITION - SPRING SUMMIT - 23 AND 24 MARCH 2006 / (eu) eu/spring summit/energy

Twenty-Five express satisfaction after guidelines for common energy strategy are adopted - Heads of State and Government place emphasis on foreign policy dimension of European energy policy

Brussels, 26/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - As the Spring Summit came to a close on 24 March, the Heads of State and Government all welcomed the fact that guidelines had been adopted for a European Energy Policy. “In ten years' time, when you look back at what happened today, you will realise that it was a historic day”, Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel said on Thursday evening after the debate on the energy issue. He admitted that the new common energy policy is a project that will...