Warsaw, 7 October: The Weimar Triangle countries (France, Germany, Poland) should pool forces in finding better energy exploitation methods, Polish Science Minister Michal Kleiber said [on] Thursday [7 October] in the break of an international energy congress in Warsaw.

Kleiber said France, Germany and Poland should expand their joint scientific research to include energy. These three countries are natural partners for such cooperation as they are Europe's biggest energy consumers, Kleiber said. He added that the future of the power sector lay in modern energy sources, especially solar, hydrogen and synthetic nuclear power.

German Deputy Science Minister Georg Wilhelm Adamowitsch backed Kleiber and advocated a switch to renewable energy sources. Warning that Europe's dependence on the shrinking resources of petroleum- based fuel could steep it into crisis, he also reminded that LPG would soon become more expensive as its resources were running low.