European Union competition officials will likely throw the book at Russian energy giant Gazprom on Wednesday, flexing Brussels’s strongest muscle and potentially reshaping an energy sector that has worked largely to Moscow’s advantage since the 1970s.
EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, who leapt into global headlines last week when she opened an antitrust investigation of Google, is expected to charge Gazprom with a bevvy of anti-competitive practices, including denying pipeline access to other energy suppliers and charging discriminatory prices to certain customers.
The high-profile antitrust case, in the works since late 2011 and officially open since 2012, continues a recent thrust by …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
