How is that market to be liberalised when some of the main players in the EU, particularly France and Germany, have a totally different attitude to the idea and to the question of energy security? They see their security as built on their national champions, such as EDF and RWE. Liberalisation will happen only if those bodies are broken up and unbundled. As far as I understand it, not only France and Germany but Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg, Slovakia and Malta oppose the proposals for unbundling. Even with qualified majority voting, how does that process have any chance of success?
Treaty of Lisbon (No. 2)
Proceeding contribution from
Mike Weir
(Scottish National Party)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 30 January 2008.
It occurred during Debates on treaty on Treaty of Lisbon (No. 2).
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