Oettinger in Bratislava to strike gas deal with Kyiv

Meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia, on 24 April, Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger and the Slovak and Ukrainian Energy Ministers, Tomas Malatinsky and Yuri Prodan, respectively, should be able to remove the remaining obstacles to an agreement on the supply of gas to Ukraine from Slovakia. The aim of the meeting, says the commissioner’s spokeswoman, is to prepare the protocol for the agreement on reverse flows of Slovakian gas to Ukraine, “an important first step towards increased security in the supply of…