Both boldness and consensus are urgently needed, and those who doubt that Europe is capable of either can take heart from two recent European Commission decisions: a politically ambitious proposal to force the complete separation of networks of pipelines and wires from the companies that supply gas and electricity; and a proposal that Gazprom and other non-EU businesses can control Union energy assets only if they meet tough new conditions, including reciprocal access to, say, Russia’s market for EU energy companies.
勇气胆识和意见一致都是我们现在所迫切需要的，而那些怀疑欧洲是否能做到其中之一的人可以从欧盟委员会最近的两个决定中受到鼓舞：一项在政治上雄心勃勃的提议要迫使管道和线路网络从供应天然气和电力的公司手里完全分离出去；另一项提议是俄罗斯天然气工业股份公司和其他非欧盟企业只有在满足苛刻的新条件后才能控制联盟的能源资产，这些条件包括相互进入对方的市场，比如让欧盟能源公司进入俄罗斯的市场。