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Green groups want more focus on clean fuels (Photo: European Commission)

EU energy plan popular but vague, member states say

Member states like the European Commission's focus on the EU's internal market in a major discussion paper out on Wednesday (8 March), but say it will be hard to agree on details of the future policy.

"No longer can energy policy be created by each member state in isolation," UK energy minister Malcolm Wicks said, welcoming "the emphasis on competition and the internal market."

"It was going back and forward in the last two weeks on whether external relations or the internal ma...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

Green groups want more focus on clean fuels (Photo: European Commission)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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