“We want an integrated European energy market with diversified supply,” he said at the meeting of prime ministers of the Baltic Sea states in Stralsund, northern Germany, on Thursday.
Member States need to develop their own electricity generation capacities so as to achieve this target hence a future nuclear power plant in Visaginas is a key regional project, he said.
Kubilius also pointed out that the EU and Russia should seek to find a common approach towards energy future of Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad.
This week’s decision by the shareholders of Lietuvos Dujos (Lithuanian Gas), which is owned by German and Russian groups, to unbundle the operations of the Lithuanian gas imports and transportation company marked a big advance in talks with Russia’s gas giant Gazprom, he said.
Meanwhile, Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that diversification of energy supplies was the ‘to be or not to be’ question for the Baltic countries.
He also noted that “nobody needs any explanations about how significant the nuclear power plant’s project in Visaginas is for Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.”
2012-05-31 16:35
Lithuania wants integrated European energy market with diversified supply
Lithuania seeks to implement the European Union’s (EU) directive so as to contribute to the elimination of energy islands in the Community by 2015, Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius has said.
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