<strong>Infrastructure development has stalled</strong>
On the pop-up yesterday, the EU summit of heads of states and governments on energy, said in an article published today in the Frankfurter Allgemeine. Europe, writes the author Hendrik Kafzak, declares its commitment to "continue to move towards a pan-European energy market." However, as suggested by a journalist, it is "a standstill in almost all directions."
The last summit of this level on energy held in the spring of 2006 in Brussels, the newspaper reminds. Then the European Commission President Barroso has announced "the birth of the European energy policy," although the summit participants limited themselves to only "vague" calls for greater competition in energy savings and better coordination of external energy policy.
Since then, the author notes the publication, none of these areas the EU are far advanced. The only significant achievement of which mentions the publication of this project Nabucco, the pipeline, which should make the EU more independent from Russian gas - today he is "ready for signature."
In Europe, it adds in the article, there is a shortage of electricity and gas networks, which prevents the final formation of the European internal market. Some countries, such as the Baltic, still have no connection with European networks and therefore "entirely dependent on Russia."
The current European Commissioner for Energy Ettinger autumn announced proposals to accelerate the construction of networks. These ideas must now support the summit. Implementation of proposals Ettinger suggests infrastructure investment by 2020 in the amount of 210 billion euros. This sum, said the publication, does not include the cost of the so-called "intelligent networks", which should amount to almost 10 billion euros per year.
On the pop-up yesterday, the EU summit of heads of states and governments on energy, said in an article published today in the Frankfurter Allgemeine. Europe, writes the author Hendrik Kafzak, declares its commitment to "continue to move towards a pan-European energy market." However, as suggested by a journalist, it is "a standstill in almost all directions."
The last summit of this level on energy held in the spring of 2006 in Brussels, the newspaper reminds. Then the European Commission President Barroso has announced "the birth of the European energy policy," although the summit participants limited themselves to only "vague" calls for greater competition in energy savings and better coordination of external energy policy.
Since then, the author notes the publication, none of these areas the EU are far advanced. The only significant achievement of which mentions the publication of this project Nabucco, the pipeline, which should make the EU more independent from Russian gas - today he is "ready for signature."
In Europe, it adds in the article, there is a shortage of electricity and gas networks, which prevents the final formation of the European internal market. Some countries, such as the Baltic, still have no connection with European networks and therefore "entirely dependent on Russia."
The current European Commissioner for Energy Ettinger autumn announced proposals to accelerate the construction of networks. These ideas must now support the summit. Implementation of proposals Ettinger suggests infrastructure investment by 2020 in the amount of 210 billion euros. This sum, said the publication, does not include the cost of the so-called "intelligent networks", which should amount to almost 10 billion euros per year.
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