"We are ready to render our assistance to Ukraine in modernization of GTS and to use financial institutes for this purpose. Ukraine joined the Energy society at the beginning of this year, and this is very important signal for its future," he said.
At the same time Barroso expressed a hope for Ukrainian norms regulating energy market to be based on European principles.
Speaking about Russian-Ukrainian gas talks the head of the EC underlined: "I won't interfere with relations between Ukraine and Russia, but I hope Europe will have gas in winter."
