WSJ: Brussels Seeks a Bigger Say in EU Members’ Energy Talks With Russia

The European Union’s executive arm is planning new legislation as early as next year that would require national governments to give it a bigger say in negotiations with Russia on gas and nuclear-fuel supplies, according to documents seen by The Wall Street Journal.

The plans—due to be published by the European Commission on Wednesday—form part of a broader EU effort to integrate the bloc’s energy market and wean the Continent off its energy dependence on Moscow. But they will do little to ease the standoff between Russia and Ukraine, in which Russian state gas company OAO Gazprom warned Tuesday that supplies to Europe could come under pressure within days.

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