The people arguably doing the most to clip Russian president Vladimir Putin’s wings and neuter Russia’s ability to effectively wield its energy weapon are a bevy of largely bland and anonymous European bureaucrats.
While the European Union has never become a traditional, hard-power geopolitical player, it has deployed what gear it has in its limited toolkit to sometimes devastating effect in the current standoff with Russia. And thanks to the creation this week of a new European “Energy Union” — an effort to genuinely unify the energy policies of the 28 E.U. countries — the gray-suited army looks poised to …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
