The European Commission on Tuesday (4 April) launched a raft of legal measures against member states failing to liberalise their energy markets, counting on "political support" from governments after EU leaders last month agreed on a common energy policy.
Brussels has sent letters to 17 member states indicating that they have failed to properly implement the EU's gas and electricity directives aimed at opening the bloc's energy market by 1 July 2007.
But Brussels has detected sh...
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