BARROSO’S EU ENERGY LAW CALL SPARKS CRITICISM
September 1st, 2006
BY ALAN OSBORN
A CALL by José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, for new European Union (EU) legislation to control monopolies and promote competition in the energy sector has sparked widespread controversy in European energy circles. In a newspaper interview last week Mr Barroso said that one particular problem was that energy companies controlled both production and distribution and Brussels was considering whether they should be split. It also might necessary to create a new pan-European regulatory agency, he said.
The German energy ...
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