State-owned businesses are inefficient, expensive and, more importantly, subject to political change and decision-making.
Yet the European energy market is mainly state-owned. A perfect environment for the Russian strategy of dividing and conquering Europe, not with tanks, but with oil and natural gas.
Today, September 19, the European Commission is set to put forward an “unbundling” package, in order to weaken the hold of big energy companies in Europe like Gas de France or E.oN and make the market more flexible and consumer-friendly.
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