2015-09-03 18:50:00
GERMANY DEFENDS GAZPROM
German Ministry of Finance informed on 30 July that the Minister Wolfgang Schäuble would like to deprive the European Commission of part of its powers in two fields, namely antitrust proceedings and, currently particularly important for Germans, enforcing compliance with the budgetary discipline by the member states.
According to Schauble the European Commission is more politicized and its powers to fight against monopolies could be taken over by a new office, similar to the Federal Cartel Office.
If it had a German boss, we could expect other decisions favourable to Russia. The Federal Gas Network Agency did…
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2019, June, 25, 13:10:00
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2019, June, 25, 13:00:00
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2019, June, 25, 12:55:00
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2019, June, 25, 12:50:00
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2019, June, 25, 12:45:00
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