EU Members Advised Not to Grant UK Greater Access to Power Markets

As the EU and the UK are looking to reset their post-Brexit relationship, the European Union’s executive arm, the European Commission, has told EU member states not to give the UK greater access to the EU electricity markets, the Financial Times reports, quoting a working paper it has seen. The advice aligns with the EU’s “no cherry-picking” stance regarding trade and market relations with the UK after Britain left the bloc.

But it also goes contrary to what industry in both the EU and the UK want. In the document circulated…