Brussels to launch bio-fuels initiative

BRUSSELS has confirmed that a new European Commission initiative on bio-fuels is due out next month.

Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel, speaking at Green Week in Berlin yesterday, said increasing the production of bio-fuels is a major priority for her.

“The resent dramatic increases in the oil price and the resent controversy over gas supplies from Russia underlines the important of increasing Europe’s energy self sufficiency,” she said.