The parliament's rapporteur on the energy strategy - Polish centre-right MEP Lena Kolarska-Bobinska - said cross-border energy infrastructure such as grids and pipelines needed to be extended.
What makes Mr Blair prone to accidents in Scotland is that politics north of the border divides not just on the usual left-right lines, but also over the constitutional issue, between those who want to keep Britain together and those who do not.
In this case, any new restraints on cross-border commerce seem much more foolish right now than they would be during good times.
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Labour unions fear a downward drive in wages, while some of the more right-wing Republicans argue only for tougher border security.
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enacted mostly in U.S. Southern and border states between the 1870s and 1965 that denied African-Americans the right to vote and other civil liberties, as well as legally segregated them from whites.
And that's follows recent seizures(ph) in Guinea-Bissau - that's a former Portuguese colony across the border from Senegal - from Mauritania, another neighbor to Senegal, and then right here in Senegal.
Amid fierce fighting between the guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries, thousands of residents have fled across the border to Ecuador.
To the south is Israel - whose nearest settlement is Metulla, built defiantly on the northern side of a cone-shaped hill topped with antennae, right next to the border.
Solar Wind Energy (which used to be called Clean Wind Energy Tower, Inc.) is negotiating for a lease from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for a 1, 700-acre parcel of flat, empty desert on the Mexican border, right next to an Air Force bombing range.
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Right now the signs are not good with tension along the oil-rich border.
Hence the core of this contest rests upon the proposal by one candidate, Murdo Fraser, to replace the current set-up with a new centre-right party, distinct from but allied to the Tories south of the border.
With financial worries across the eurozone and a rise in support for far-right, anti-immigration parties, many European leaders are winning support by dropping hints that border controls may return.
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