The European Commission keeps on surprising. Two years ago sceptics said there was no possibility of a second gas directive being agreed because key member states would veto it. The second gas directive was agreed.
Once it had been agreed, sceptics said that it didn’t matter: the big hitters in European gas and power had worked out how to render it irrelevant. They knew how to continue to remain dominant incumbents and lock out competition. Last year two EU directorate-gene…
Subscribe now and get immediate access to the rest of this article and all the other premium content on thepolitician.org. To begin, please fill in the simple form below:
N.B. If you were a subscriber before December 2006, you should be able to login with your username and password from the old website. If you have any problems with this, please contact us.