Will Europe and quartered Gazprom?

Rules igry19-09-2007 the European Commission on Wednesday adopted a plan of the EU energy market regulation, including restrictions on the purchase of energy assets in Europe for foreign companies. That is, in fact, banned Russia's Gazprom already owns the nearby evroaktivov, further investment. EC calls the proposed measures "protecting competition, while investors, market participants, and public opinion calling them protectionist and a desire to impose their own rules outside the EU. The plan, approved at the board meeting of the European Commission, also contains a position on mandatory crushing of the assets of European energy corporations to smaller companies. For overcoming such acquisitions can only serve interstate agreement between the EU and third countries, said European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, introducing a package of measures to regulate the EU energy market. Barroso led "beautiful" justification for these harsh actions the EC - in his words, this is just no more nor less than to create a "level playing field for investors - both in the EU and in third countries", and "the protection of fair competition" , and supposedly measures the European Commission "is not directed against Russia."