The European Parliament has rejected the forced separation of companies' production and supply wings, known as full ownership unbundling.
In a vote on Wednesday (9 July), MEPs adopted a softer line on liberalisation of the union's gas sector. Some 579 parliamentarians voted in favour, while 80 were against and 52 abstained.
"It is good that we are moving toward a third way,"' German conservative Herbert Reul was cited as saying by Bloomberg.
He referred to an option that ...
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