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The EU's Southern Corridor is designed to break Russia's monopoly on Caspian gas supply (Photo: europa.eu)

Italian energy firm lobbies for Nabucco rival

Edison, Italy's second biggest energy supplier, on Monday (26 April) urged the European Union to speed up construction of a project to pipe Azeri gas to Italy across Turkey and Greece with a branch line to Bulgaria.

Azerbaijan's off-shore Caspian field of Shah Deniz could provide Europe with a faster alternative to Russian gas supplies than the main EU-backed project of Nabucco, which is to stretch from the Caspian Sea to Austria via Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary, an Edison offi...

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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.

The EU's Southern Corridor is designed to break Russia's monopoly on Caspian gas supply (Photo: europa.eu)

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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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