The European Commission still believes Europe can break Russia's stranglehold on Central Asia gas supplies with a Trans-Caspian pipeline, but a new Russian deal and internal EU divisions are hampering the project.
"We're still very optimistic about this," a commission spokesman said on Friday (1 June), adding that Brussels will in the "very near future" appoint a high-level "coordinator" such as an ex-commissioner or former European cabinet minister to push the project along.
"My...
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