Commission welcomes breakthrough leading to gas flows from Slovakia to Ukraine

EU News 194/2014

Brussels, 28 April 2014
IP/14/487

The European Commission welcomes the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) enabling gas flows from Slovakia to Ukraine, which is set to take place this afternoon in Bratislava. José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, will attend the ceremony together with Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico and Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuriy Prodan. The Commission acted as a facilitator in the negotiations that led to today’s breakthrough. Along with the MoU, the gas pipeline operators concerned – the Slovakian company Eustream and the Ukrainian company Ukrtransgaz – will sign a Framework Interconnection Agreement today, laying out the technical details of the foreseen solution.

Source and additional information:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-487_en.htm?locale=en

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