Putin offers EU to create common energy complex
MOSCOW. February 27. KAZINFORM Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin offered to the European Union to create a common energy complex with Russia and to cancel the third energy package, Itar-Tass reported.
"We should ponder over a deeper cooperation in the energy sector up to the creation of a common energy complex with Europe," the Russian presidential candidate said in his program article "Russia and Changing World", which is published in the Moscow News newspaper on Monday.
The premier noted that first steps were made in the gas industry. The governments of many countries supported the Nord Stream gas pipeline along the bottom of the Baltic Sea and the South Stream project in the Black Sea, and the largest European energy companies are participating in these projects.
The premier also urged to cancel the third energy package, which complicated EU-Russian energy relations. "We should recollect courage and remove this obstacle on the path for mutually beneficial cooperation," Putin said with confidence.