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EU Commission seeks greater role in energy deals
BRUSSELS : The European Union's executive will seek to boost its powers to direct European energy relations with countri
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EU governments will for the first time have to notify the European Commission of planned bilateral energy pacts with countries such as Russia, allowing the executive to scrutinise such deals, details of legislative proposals to be unveiled on Wednesday showed.
The executive will push for deeper relations between the EU, Russia and Ukraine to avoid a repeat of gas supply disruptions, which in 2009 cut off gas supplies to consumers in Poland and other EU states.
Copyright Reuters, 2011