The key to Europe’s ability to neutralize Russia’s geopolitical advantage is to establish a unified energy policy, with a Europe-wide distribution network and a Europe-wide regulatory authority that has precedence over national regulators. This would deprive Russia of its ability to play one country off against another, because a concession granted to one national distributor would immediately become available to customers in all the other countries.
欧洲抵御俄罗斯地缘政治优势的能力的关键在于制定一个统一的能源政策，有一个欧洲范围的分配网络和能够凌驾于各国监管者之上的欧洲范围的监管机构。这将使俄罗斯无法再利用一个国家来压制另一个国家，因为提供给一国经销商的优惠将立即成为提供给所有其他国家的客户的优惠。