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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9773

31 October 2008
Contents Publication in full By article 26 / 36
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/energy
Belgium's minister Magnette appeals for price controls

Brussels, 30/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - The Belgian minister for energy, Paul Magnette, is appeal for European regulation to prevent artificial price hikes encouraged by some of the big energy groups. He informed the press at an energy conference on 30 October in Brussels, that, “it has quite simply become impossible for small countries like Belgium to protect themselves against the big companies”. The French energy group GDF Suez, which has sole control of the Electrabel company, the...

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