EUROPEAN COMMISSION LAUNCHES EU ENERGY POLICY PACKAGE

BY ALAN OSBORNFOLLOWING a year or more of advance razzmatazz, the European Union's multi-pronged energy strategy was unveiled on January 10 and while history may not see it as the "new industrial revolution" that Brussels proclaimed, there's enough in it to engage the minds of everybody in the energy industry for perhaps years to come. One pretty obvious point is well worth bearing in mind at the start though: what the European Commission wants, no matter how sensible and well-reasoned, isn't always what happens. The strategy - by which we mean the whole ensemble ...


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