Britain's Brown urges EU leaders to give more support for nabucco project crossing Turkey

Ahead of today's European Union summit to discuss the recent crisis in Georgia and its impact on relations between the EU and Russia, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged EU leaders to give more support for the Nabucco project for transporting Caspian natural gas to Europe via Turkey. In a guest op-ed published in Britain's Observer daily yesterday, Brown wrote that EU countries should use their common bargaining power instead of making separate energy agreements with Russia. He added that the Union should establish a single energy market, and rapidly improve its ties with petroleum and natural gas producers other than Russia in order to ensure the bloc's energy supply security by reducing its dependence on Russia.