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Bulgaria, Greece, Romania to link up gas grids in ‘vertical corridor’

December 10, 2014December 10, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Greece, Romania, South Stream

The European Union will continue to focus on building up gas grid connections between member states in the wake of

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Europe 

Ukraine’s power plants working at minimum capacity because of coal shortage

December 7, 2014 The Kyiv Post energy, Ukraine

Ukraine is obviously short of coal, the country’s newly-appointed Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn told a December 5 news conference in Kyiv. There

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Europe 

Turkey, Greece to tackle energy dispute

December 5, 2014 Dorian Jones of VOANews energy, Greece, Turkey

Turkey’s prime minister is set to visit Greece on Friday as tensions swell among regional neighbors over energy deposits in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament fails to pass declaration on South Stream cancellation

December 3, 2014December 7, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, energy

Bulgaria’s lawmakers failed to adopt a declaration of support for the South Stream gas pipeline, with familiar dividing lines re-emerging

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Europe 

EU lends $186 million to reconstruct Ukraine’s major gas pipeline

December 1, 2014 The Kyiv Post energy, Ukraine

The European Investment Bank, the European Union’s lending arm, is providing a $186 million loan to Ukraine’s government for modernising

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Bulgaria 

Energy efficiency: EC asks Bulgaria to get in line with EU legislation

November 26, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff energy, European Commission

The European Commission (EC) has formally requested Bulgaria and Hungary to ensure the full transposition of the bloc’s 2012 Energy

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Europe 

Vucic to settle Serbia’s gas debt with Putin

November 5, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Russia, Serbia

Serbian prime minister Aleksandar Vucic said on November 4 that he would reach an agreement on Serbia’s gas debt with the “Russian

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Europe 

Russia, Ukraine reach temporary gas deal

October 31, 2014November 2, 2014 VOANews energy, Russia, Ukraine

Russia – locked in a bitter standoff with Ukraine over a pro-Russian rebellion in Ukraine’s east – has agreed to

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Europe 

Ukraine, Russia extend gas deal talks after impasse

October 30, 2014 VOANews energy, Russia, Ukraine

Trilateral talks in Brussels to restart the delivery of Russian gas to Ukraine will continue on Thursday after the parties

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