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Identifying Benefits and Allocating Costs for European Cross-Border Infrastructure Projects / Jean-Michel Glachant, EU Energy Policy blog, 22/09/2011http://www.energypolicyblog.com/2011/09/22/identifying-benefits-and-allocating-costs-for-european-cross-border-infrastructure-projects/The European Union is engaged in a process of market inte- gration over a long period. Cross-border energy infrastructure investments should play a key role in reaching this objective. However, cross-border investment projects having a European interest are currently undertaken only country by country with an insufficient cooperation between actors involved in such a project. Beside the lack of cooperation, the asymmetries of cost allocation and of benefit distribution of cross-border infrastructure plus the presence of economic externalities have lead to a suboptimal situation at the EU level...