High Oil Prices Overshadow EU-OPEC Talks

The European Union is expected to ask the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to raise oil production in an effort to pull down high crude prices at a meeting between the two organizations Thursday.

The EU’s head office said last week it would make the suggestion at talks between EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, OPEC President Sheik Ahmed Fahd Al Ahmed Al Sabah and other senior officials