Putin and Europe Still at Odds Over Pipelines — Ministério das Relações Exteriores

Resenha: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the president of the European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, on Thursday clashed over EU plans to stop suppliers of oil or gas from directly managing pipelines — a move that threatens to hit Gazprom.

Putin said the plans could hurt his country's enterprises and likened them to "property confiscation."

But the EC president said the new energy framework was in line with World Trade Organization rules and would affect foreign and domestic companies alike.

Barroso said the so-called third energy package was "nondiscriminatory" and he ruled out any changes. For Europe, "this is now approved legislation," Barroso said at a news conference. "It applies to Russian companies as it applies to Norwegian companies … and it applies to European companies," he added.

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