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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9783

15 November 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/energy
Despite Russia's threat to pull out, Commission refuses to budge on environmental criteria for Nord Stream

Brussels, 14/11/2008 (Agence Europe) - Describing the European Commission's energy security package to reporters on Thursday 13 November 2008, EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs promised that the EU would not budge on its environmental standards for Germany and Russia's Nord Stream gas pipeline project under the Baltic Sea, despite the threat by Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin on 12 November to pull out from the project. The Commissioner said threats were never a good tool and...

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