No majority in EU Council of Ministers for Energy Charter

Brussels (energate) - The EU Commission has not received a mandate from the EU Council of Ministers to approve the modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT). At a vote of the EU Permanent Representatives Committee (COREPER) on 18 November in Brussels, the EU ambassadors of Germany, France, Spain and the Netherlands refused to give their consent to the ECT reform. As a result, no qualified majority was reached. These four countries want to leave the Charter unilaterally an ...