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"Madam President, our relations with Russia regarding energy are governed by the principle of reciprocity. There is one major difficulty relating to the latter, namely that the Russians interpret this principle as involving the politics of force, and take no account of European market expectations.
Russia has recently forced several European energy concerns to leave its territory. At the same time, however
is benefiting from the opening up of the European energy market. It has growing investments in as many as 16 of the Union’s 27 Member States.
even has access to private consumers in Germany, France and Italy, and we all know that those countries represent the lion’s share of the energy market.
There is a significant conclusion to be drawn from all this. Although liberalisation of the energy market is beneficial from the consumer’s point of view, it must be undertaken in such a way as to prevent Europe from becoming even more dependent on the Russian economic and political machine.
In my view, this represents a challenge for the Commission, competition protection policy and for employers. They must lay the foundations described in the Commission’s document and in Mr Vidal-Quadras’ excellent report, and also translate them into legal language."@en1
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