Controversial fuel tax comes into force in Romania
Fuel prices will go up as of midnight on March 31 2014 across Romania after the enforcement of a seven
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Polish PM: EU needs energy union for security of gas supplies
Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has called on the European Union to form an energy union to boost Europe’s energy
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Ukrainians should expect gas price hikes, subsidies for poorest citizens
Ukraine will increase household prices for gas by 50 per cent in May, and the utility companies will see a
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Slovakia looks to offer Ukraine gas
As tensions over Crimea continue, Ukraine is looking to cut its dependence on Russian gas by importing supplies from Slovakia.
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Ukraine’s Naftogaz meets new head with debts and losses
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers appointed Andriy Kobolev as head of Naftogaz, the national oil and gas monopoly, during an overnight
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Gazprom wins Crimea, may lose EU customers
Russia’s takeover of Ukraine’s Crimea may cost it a lot financially – but only if the West makes a concerted,
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Europe looks to US, Qatar gas to reduce reliance on Russia
As Russia and the West enact tit-for-tat sanctions over Moscow’s annexation of Crimea, European leaders meeting in Brussels are discussing
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Bulgarian President slams case against energy distributors as ‘populist’
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has described the case brought against the three privately-owned electricity distribution companies, which risk losing their
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Bulgaria’s energy regulator starts procedure to cancel licences of power distribution companies
Bulgaria’s State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (SEWRC) said on March 19 2014 that it had initiated the procedure to
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