The European Commission plans to liberalise energy market

"The proposals put forward by the European Commission on Wednesday are dressed up as free-market measures, but in essence they resemble planned-economy control measures that will neither improve the security of supplies nor bring electricity tariffs down," Gorgio V. Müller comments critically. "One glance at the desolate state of Britain's train network demonstrates what can happen under clumsily planned circumstances when two separate companies are responsible for providing a single service. Therefore it can't be ruled out that the European Commission's proposals - which German and French power companies are somewhat exaggeratedly describing as 'expropriation' - won't promote competition but will instead lead to additional regulation and unnecessary bureaucracy."

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