Margrethe Vestager, the European commissioner for competition, is going to war against a second global powerhouse. Just days after after the Danish commissioner took on US software giant Google, she tangled with even larger prey — Russian gas behemoth Gazprom.
The accusation is that Gazprom used its market power to bully and overcharge central European governments and companies; specifically preventing the free flow of gas across European Union states and extracting commitments in return for gas to keep control of pipelines.
“The Commission’s preliminary view is that Gazprom is breaking EU antitrust rules by pursuing an overall strategy to partition Central and …read more
Source: European Voice
