The European Union charged Russian energy giant Gazprom Wednesday with using unfair competitive practices in the natural gas business in Central and Eastern Europe, opening up another contentious flank between Brussels and Moscow at a time of heightened tension over Russian aggression in Ukraine.
EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager unveiled the formal “charge sheet” against Gazprom after almost three years of investigation into the Russian firm’s dominant behavior in European energy markets. The EU charged Gazprom with impeding the free flow of gas among eight EU member states as well as charging potentially discriminatory pricing by linking natural gas prices to …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
