EU commissioner against energy union
EU energy commissioner Günther Oettinger is against Polish PM Donald Tusk’s idea of an energy union, according to an interview with the commissioner published in German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
“I will not accept a politically regulated single price,” Oettinger was quoted as saying. “For the EU gas is a product, not a political weapon.”
The commissioner wants the EU to expand its gas pipeline network in order to facilitate transport between its member states. In his opinion such a move would lead to price unification and stop Russia from threatening specific countries with price hikes.
