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Barroso wants new energy partnership with Russia (Photo: European Commission)

Barroso seeks more access to Russian energy

The European Union will bring its plans for a common energy policy to Moscow on Friday when European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso meets president Vladimir Putin ahead of a G8 energy ministers' meeting on energy security.

The 25-member bloc is seeking to reach a new partnership with oil and gas-rich Russia after a gas crisis with Ukraine in January ignited EU worries about its reliability as Europe's key supplier.

Russia provides a quarter of the bloc's gas, much of it ...

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