Monday, January 12, 2009

Gas crisis has to power EU reforms

The European Union has rightly put top priority on trying to secure an early end to the Russia-Ukraine gas dispute that has left millions of EU citizens short of fuel. It must now put the same effort into implementing much-discussed energy reforms to limit the risks of a future supply shock again threatening the health and even the lives of its people.

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[then again, maybe not...]


Slovakia to restart nuclear plant

BRUSSELS: Starved of gas following Russia's dispute with Ukraine, Slovakia has announced plans to restart a Soviet-era nuclear reactor in defiance [?] of the European Union... [snip]

The decision, made late Saturday, is expected to provoke sharp criticism at a meeting of European energy ministers in Brussels on Monday, and was condemned by the Austrian government on Sunday as "completely unacceptable."

[better that people freeze]

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