VOL. XLV

No 12

25-March-2002

GENERAL

EU Leaders Agree Compromise Deal Over Energy Market Liberalization

EUleaders meeting at the Barcelona summit agreed on a compromise deal that will see industrialenergy users, who make up around 60% of the total energy market, have the rightto choose their energy suppliers by 2004. The agreement was a compromise sincethe majority of leaders had committed themselves to a complete opening ofenergy markets, which would have included all domestic users. However,...