Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz, seen here in May 2009, said that the country is determined to build a nuclear power plant and will launch a new project to replace a failed tender.

EU Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen, seen here in April 2009, has criticised informal financial pledges to General Motors by countries vying to save jobs at factories belonging to the automaker's European unit.

Map of Europe showing the South Stream and rival Nabucco gas pipelines.

A Pakistani employee fills the tank of a motorcycle at a gasoline station in Karachi, in July 2009. Oil prices remained depressed Friday amid a strengthening dollar and concerns over sustainable economic recovery.

Hundreds of passengers wait in line in the area of departure at Santiago airport. Chilean airports resumed normal activity on Friday, after some 2,000 airport workers launched a country-wide strike that caused flight delays, the General Directorate of Civil Aviation said.

Greenpeace activists lay in front of the Energy Ministry in Ankara in 2008. Turkey on Friday scrapped a 2008 tender won by a Russian-led consortium to build the country's first nuclear power plant -- a process that had been under threat of being invalidated by a court decision.

The Greek socialist government tabled a budget on Friday to cut the public deficit to 9.1 percent of output and save the country's economy from the "emergency room," Prime Minister George Papandreou, pictured on November 19, said.

A man uses a ATM machine at French bank Caisse d'Epargne. Banks should step up their lending to support economic growth while taking steps to curb "undue" bonuses, European Central Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet says.