The deadline was set as part of the EU's energy market liberalisation programme.
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The approach on both sides should be to keep up the momentum for liberalisation.
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It has resisted further energy liberalisation, to protect its own energy giants.
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Third, to some degree, capital-account and trade liberalisation go hand in hand.
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They see the EU, too, as distinctly unenthusiastic about further liberalisation.
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This would be a bad moment, therefore, to turn away from further liberalisation.
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Governments are now likely to come under pressure to slow trade liberalisation.
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As liberalisation takes hold in more countries, further price falls are likely.
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The gravest charge against liberalisation is that it has deepened such divisions.
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Liberalization: the act of making less strict
(liberalise) liberalize: become more liberal; "The laws liberalized after Prohibition"
In general, liberalization (or liberalisation) refers to a relaxation of previous government restrictions, usually in areas of social or economic policy. In some contexts this process or concept is often, but not always, referred to as deregulation. ...
The opening up of an industry to more competition, often involving the relaxation of government restrictions
Unilateral or multilateral reductions in tariffs and other measures that restrict trade. Trade liberalization has been the objective of all rounds of the GATT trade negotiations
The opening up of markets to the free market forces of supply and demand