Advantageous connections


          

刊名:Modern Power Systems
作者:Keith Nuthall
刊号:720C0069
ISSN:0260-7840
出版年:2008
年卷期:2008, vol.28, no.9
页码:6,9
总页数:2
分类号:TK0
语种:eng
文摘:The Balkans energy community aims, well in advance of accession to the European Union, to link the fractured region's power supply with Western European networks. The political map of Europe these days looks very blue. Most of it (discounting Russia) is part of the European Union (EU) and those countries that have yet to join are increasingly the odd men out. The European Commission and its fellow EU institutions are keen on some of these countries becoming members and less keen on others, but the countries that are almost destined to join the EU (if they want to) are those surrounded by EU territory. That map shows a sizeable bloc of such countries in southeast Europe - much of the former Yugoslavia, and Albania. Brussels is already talking to all of them about future membership, which should come in the next decade or so.