Europe gets serious about gas
As part of efforts to beat Russia and China to Central Asia's huge untapped natural gas resources, Europe is creating the Caspian Development Corp, which will bind European gas buyers and pipeline projects into a single entity. The question is whether the group can offer Central Asian nations a sweet enough deal to betray Moscow. - Nicholas Clayton

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