Bargaining Romania and Austria: "You to us Schengen, we to you gas from the Black Sea"

Policy Today 09:25 Photos: [© Ilya Pitalev/] Romania threatens RIA Novosti news agency with failure of the Black Sea gas project because of disagreement Austria to allow Bucharest to the Schengen area, writes newspaper "The Financial Times". OMV AG is the co-owner of a gas Neptun Deep field at the coast Romania. The gas law Romania allows the government to interfere with the commercial relations with private firms. The Minister of Energy Romania Sebastian Ioan Burduzha declared that dispute should not be reduced to "force for force" in the sense that "you to us Schengen, we to you gas from the Black Sea". However...