Bulgaria’s parliament ratified yesterday an agreement on the Nabucco
natural gas pipeline signed by the project’s host countries last year and aimed
at cutting Europe’s dependence on Russian gas supplies. In July 2009,
Turkey
,
Bulgaria
,
Romania
,
Hungary
and
Austria
signed
the agreement which ironed out details over transit and tax issues in a move to
boost the 7.9-billion-euro European Union-backed project. (Reuters)