European Parliament 7 April 2000, WRITTEN QUESTION E-1077/00 by Raffaele Costa (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Terms and conditions to which several Italian credit institutions subject their current account-holders.

In a number of applicant countries, however, notably Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovakia, such a restrictive policy does not take any account of political reality. For these governments, the complete closure of their nuclear power plants raises extremely difficult economic and social issues.