EU energy Too little, too late

Neelie Kroes could hardly have picked a less auspicious day to announce the results of her year-long investigation into the EU energy market. With Russian oil supplies to Poland currently being held to ransom as a by-product a dispute with Belarus, worries about high energy prices and inadequate liberalisation are inevitably running a distant second to legitimate worries about the security of future energy supplies. So perhaps it is not surprising that the EU energy commissioner backed away from...