The European Union is slowly rethinking its whole approach to energy giving it a political dimension it has lacked in the past, but some MEPs think it has to go a lot further to give the bloc an energy policy with real bite.
The wake-up call for the Union came when Russia in early 2006 switched off the gas taps to Ukraine, a move that quickly affected several of EU member states and pushed the issue high on to the political agenda.
Later spats with energy transit country Belarus, ...
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