Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 11

15-March-2010

TURKEY

Turkey Ratifies Nabucco Intergovernmental Agreement

The Turkish parliament became on 4 March the fifth and final transit country to ratify the intergovernmental agreement (IGA) for the proposed Nabucco Gas Pipeline project signed on 13 July 2009 in Istanbul (MEES, 20 July 2009). Hungary ratified the IGA in October 2009, Austria in December 2009, Bulgaria in February 2010, Romania in March 2010, and now Turkey. Germany is the sixth...