EU Wants Separate Gas Pipeline

Politics » BULGARIA IN EU | January 15, 2007, Monday // 00:00

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has suggested the construction of a European gas pipeline network to help guarantee the union's energy security.

In an interview with the Polish centre-right daily Rzeczpospolita, she was admant the bloc needs to ensure that a network of gas pipelines is created, working along the same lines as the energy grid, which channels electricity between European countries.

Merkel also raised the issue of a proposed pipeline linking Poland to the planned German gas terminal at Wilhelmshafen, on the North Sea, but Warsaw has rejected the idea.

Poland has also refused to participate in a project by German firms BASF and E.ON and Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom to build a pipeline under the Baltic Sea.

The pipeline is set to become operational in 2010.

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