EU leaders on Friday (4 February) agreed to set new deadlines for the completion of the bloc's internal energy market, linking up gas and electricity grids and consulting with the EU commission before doing bilateral energy deals with foreign suppliers.
"The internal market should be completed by 2014 so as to allow gas and electricity to flow freely," the final conclusions read.
National governments are also invited to "accelerate work" on adopting technical standards for electr...
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