Gas Interconnectors in Europe: More than a Funding Issue

By Arianna Checchi
Date of publication: 
14 April 2009
Pages: 
3
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Although they play a pivotal role in opening up the European gas markets to competition and in the creation of a single market for natural gas, investment in gas interconnections has been scarce and infrastructures are only slowly being developed. In a new Commentary, CEPS Fellow Arianna Checchi argues that the problem should be addressed by means of public intervention.