EU ROUND UP – RUSSIA, EU, CENTRAL ASIA AND NORTH AFRICA VIE FOR ENERGY DEALS
December 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is casting around for allies in central Asia and north Africa in its diplomatic tussle with Russia to secure cheap and reliable energy supplies. EU energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs has flown to Algeria to discuss closer energy ties with this major gas and oil producer. And a meeting of the Euro-Mediterranean Conference of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, in Tampere, Finland, uniting EU, north African and Levantine states, has agreed "to work for the continued gradual integration of Euro-Mediterranean energy ...
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