Word: cloquet
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...energy market, businesses want that check to arrive soon. European companies pay as much as 30% more than their American counterparts for electricity. "Until the higher energy costs faced by European businesses are reduced, there will always be a big gap in competitiveness with the U.S.," says Daniel Cloquet, an energy expert with UNICE, the leading E.U. business lobby group. Countries that have liberalized their energy markets over the past decade - including the Scandinavian nations, the U.K. and Germany - have seen electricity and gas bills drop by 23%. In France, the situation is complicated by the upcoming presidential and parliamentary...