EUROPEAN COMMISSION TRIES TO DODGE BULLET OVER UNBUNDLING HOT POTATO
September 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OUTCOME of the political struggle about this month's (Sept) release of a comprehensive proposed package of European Union (EU) energy directives and regulations insisting on some unbundling between power producers and transmitters will test the EU's ability to threaten core interests of national governments.
After months of debating whether it should go for broke, the European Commission has tabled radical proposals that not only push unbundling, they would create an EU agency with real authority to police Europe's national electricity ...
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