EU Must Contain Energy Costs or Risk ‘Deindustrialization’

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Europe must get a grip on energy prices to protect growth and stop its industry from fleeing abroad, according to two top policy makers.

The region needs to reduce the cost gap with the U.S., where a shale-gas revolution has slashed prices, European Union Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger told a conference in Berlin via a video link from Brussels.