Brussels, 18/05/2009 (Agence Europe) - The Council of the EU takes the view that access to energy is one of the main challenges for development. It stresses this point in unanimous conclusions on “Access to sustainable energy sources at the local level in developing countries”, adopted without debate at the meeting of EU foreign ministers, chaired by Jan Kohout, in Brussels on Monday 18 May.
Noting that, in developing countries, 1.6 billion people have no access to electricity, 2.5...