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| | TIMEeurope.com: Europe -- Heading for the Nuclear Dustbin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | The question of the timeline was intimately connected with the issue of financial support from the E.U. The E.U. commission had failed to make a clear-cut, long-term commitment to help support the plant's shutdown beyond 2006, when current funding runs out. |
 | | As Liberal Party head and presidential candidate Eugenijus Gentvilas said, "I think that not only the government but society as a whole is afraid that, after pledging to shut down the second unit in 2009, we will not receive as much financial support as we need." |
 | | At the same time, Lithuania closed the energy chapter of the acquis communautaire, the set of legislative changes to be adopted before membership. |
| www.time.com /time/europe/eu/daily/0,13716,264237,00.html (702 words) |
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