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EU: The European Commission proposes tighter cooperation on energy

By  |  March 1, 2015

The European Commission submitted a proposal for the creation of a bloc-wide energy union this week. The New York Times reports:

“The European Commission, the bloc’s executive agency, said its proposal for an energy union represented an important step toward unifying member countries’ economies and could help wean some countries from dependence on Russia, which supplies about a quarter of the bloc’s natural gas. […]

But the ambitious plans — including some initiatives that have failed to win Europewide approval before — face difficult odds because the 28 European Union countries zealously guard their sovereignty over national energy systems.”

 

Full Content: The New York Times

 

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