Reuters: EU member states must enforce energy law opposed by Russia
EU member states must enforce a law to prevent companies such as Russia's Gazprom dominating energy pipelines, said a draft document compiled ahead of EU leaders' talks next month, as the bloc seeks to take a tough stance against Moscow.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly attacked the so-called Third Energy Package, which forces energy companies to separate the ownership of transmission links if they use them to carry their own gas or power.
Crucially, it makes Moscow's South Stream pipeline, designed to bypass gas transit nation Ukraine, illegal, since it would control the assets as well as the gas it transports.