Recent European Union developments

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Proposals to build a Baltic Sea gas pipeline straight from Russia to Germany has outraged neighbouring eastern Europe countries,such as Poland,reports Keith Nuthall.Both it and the Baltic States are pushing for the plans to be discussed at European Union(EU)level as they would threaten common-EU policies to guarantee energy supplies to all Europe.In other EU news:The European Investment Bank(EIB)is planning to lend 149.6mn to utility Viesgo Generation to build a large natural gas-fired combined cycle generating plant in Spain,generating around 800 MWe.The EIB also wants to lend 200mn to Syri's Public Establishment of Electricity for Generation and Transmission(PEEGT)to build a combined cycle gas turbine of 750 MW in the country's north-east.