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Barroso's energy liberalisation plans to face uphill struggle

European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso is going to have a tough struggle to push through his plans to liberalise the energy market across the EU, according to the head of the national energy regulator in Germany.

"That is a tough, sometimes also too tough job," said Matthias Kurth, reported in FT Deutschland.

Calling energy issues a "a highly controversial area," Mr Kurth, whose agency regulates competition in the energy sector, went on to say "In principle we are in th...

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