EU may drop US energy trade demand

摘要

The EU may drop its insistence on a dedicated energy chapter in the free trade agreement with the US as a result of the recent removal of restrictions on US crude exports. In previous rounds of talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, EU negotiators have been unsuccessful in requesting unrestricted access to US natural gas and crude. But “lifting the oil ban has made it a lot easier” to advance the talks, the head of energy for the EU delegation to the US, Fabrice Vareille, says.