Financial Times: EU warns states on energy market laws

Brussels has stepped up legal pressure against eight member states for failing to implement laws to liberalise their energy markets – despite the fact that leaders from four of those nations last week signed a public letter urging such reforms.

The European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm, has cited Bulgaria, Cyprus, Spain, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia and Estonia for failing to write into national law reforms agreed more than two years ago under the EU’s third energy liberalisation package.  MORE (Registration required)