Europeanisation of Russia needed for EU energy security, Piebalgs says
BRUSSELS - The best way to create EU energy security is to export market economy values to suppliers such as Russia and the Middle East, energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs told EUobserver in an interview on Tuesday (28 March), prioritising foreign policy over single market goals in the EU's new Energy Policy for Europe (EPE). "A market economy is not imaginable without democracy, without human rights and without freedom of expression, these things go together, you can't separate them," the energy commissioner stated.
The adoption of a European-type market economy in Russia and beyond would help create stable energy markets and extra wealth for suppliers while spreading energy benefits from billionaires to ordinary citizens, he explained.
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