The signing of the “Nabucco Intergovernmental Agreement” (see yesterday's bulletin No 9941 for the ceremony and content of the agreement) is of huge importance for the security of the EU's energy supplies. Its significance, however, goes well beyond that. At the ceremony in Ankara, the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, stressed that Nabucco opens up a new era in relations between the EU and Turkey. It is a “strategic bond” that can “cement the links”...