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| Baltic, Polish and Finnish premiers aim to hook up energy, transport systems
VILNIUS, Sept 4 (AFP) - Developing transport and energy infrastructures across the Baltics, Poland and Finland was on the agenda at top-level talks here Thursday, officials said. "In a meeting with Estonian prime minster we concentrated on energy systems and future links with western Europe," Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas said after talks with his Estonian counterpart Juhan Parts. BizVantage – Beyond the news: indepth on business, investment and technology. "The cooperation of Baltic countries in this area is quite good but we have no connection with the EU energy system," he added. Lithuania is investigating a project which would link the country's energy grids to Poland in a bid to hook into the the EU's energy systems. The scheme has been supported by European Commission president Romano Prodi but it is unsure whether its implemention will prove cost-effective. Brazauskas was later to meet Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller and Latvian counterpart Einars Repse. On Friday the five premiers will be joined by Loyola de Palcio, EU Commissioner for Energy and Transport and Italian Transport Minister Lunardi. rac/mrm/jkb EU-enlarge-Baltics-energy-transport C O P Y R I G H T R E M I N D E RThis article is Copyright 2003 by Agence France-Presse. All articles in the clari.* news hierarchy are Copyrighted and licensed to ClariNet Communications Corp. for distribution. Except for articles in the biz.clarinet newsgroups, only paid subscribers may access these articles. Any unauthorized access, reproduction or transmission is strictly prohibited. We offer a reward to the person who first provides us with information that helps stop those who distribute or receive our news feeds without authorization. Please send reports to reward@clari.net. [Use info@clari.net for sales or other inquiries.] Details on the use of ClariNet material and other info can be found in the user documentation section of our web page.
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