Brussels, 21/01/2009 (Agence Europe) - Presenting the energy policy priorities of the Czech Presidency to the European Parliament energy committee (chaired by Angelika Niebler, EPP-ED, Germany), Czech Industry Minister Martin Riman said, on Wednesday 21 January, that energy security was the number one priority of a Presidency which had already been required to take urgent action in this area, arbitrating in the recent gas trade dispute between Russian and Ukraine.
The Czech Presidency will...