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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9621

13 March 2008
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
Energy: debate on creating genuine internal market makes headway, despite disadvantage of not having common external policy

Contribution by Council Presidency. The indispensable creation of a genuine common European energy market is making progress, despite obstacles and differences. Sometimes we observe a certain confusion between internal and external aspects of the EU's energy policy. This can be explained by the historically multinational character of this sector, whose responsibility was largely left in the hands of the big companies (“the seven sisters” of yore) but this has now all changed since the...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS