The European Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved spending of €423 million from EU budgets on subsidising the 2007-13 costs of decommissioning units 1 and 2 of the Bohunice nuclear power plant, Slovakia. Its national government promised to close the units by 2006 and 2008 respectively as a condition of joining the EU.
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