Brussels, 28/01/2009 (Agence Europe) - In Bonn for the launch of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) (see EUROPE 9827), Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs called on EU member states, most of which are signatories to the treaty setting up IRENA, to mandate the European Commission to negotiate the EU's joining the new agency. Piebalgs will ask the Council to discuss very shortly a Commission request for a mandate. “We should all support IRENA because it is a global agency,...