Diversifying energy sources essential for region, leaders say
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Ensuring enough energy to meet growing demand is a major problem affecting the Balkans, and leaders from the region have agreed on a common strategy to deal with it. Meeting last month in Ohrid, leaders from seven Southeast European (SEE) countries drafted a plan aimed at stabilising the energy situation and ending frequent power shortages, and said around 30 billion euros were needed to put it into effect. The presidents of Albania, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia attended, as did ...