Force is useless against Third Energy Package

One cannot struggle against the Third Energy Package with the help of force. Such a struggle demands committment to agreements, diplomacy and lobbying, the head of the Analysis Centre of the Institute of International Research of the Moscow State Institute of Foreign Affairs, Andrey Kazantsev, says.

The expert was commenting on Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's recent article saying that the country is deeply concerned about the Third Energy Package.

The European Union's Third Energy Package is a legislative package for the internal gas and electricity market in the European Union. Its purpose is to further open up the gas and electricity markets in the European Union. The package was proposed by the European Commission in September 2007, and adopted by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union in July 2009. It entered into force on 3 September 2009.