The problem is the expectations: The UK has depleted the North Sea gas fields and prices have gone through the roof overnight. The other countries didn't have any expectations of low prices. guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
Today it's all about Rita Verdonk throwing herself into the fray as candidate to become VVD party-leader. VVD has steadily drifted towards the neocons across the years (although we call it neoliberals in Dutch). Whatever the outcome, it's all wrong for me. It's either Verdonk, a Thatcherite conservative with a populist strategy, or the other big candidate Mark Rutte (now secretary of Education) who is a full-blood neocon as they come and responsible for the smear-campaign against the PvdA in the local election, past March.
I don't mind. Internal strife within the VVD one year before national elections is a potential boon for other parties. Old VVD members already cautioned so.
Mmmph. Went off-topic, I see. Oh well.
The Cabinet's decision shouldn't be that far away though and the last briefings suggest it gets through with little effort.
I've been wondering though... What if a company like EDF needs to liberalise, and it does practically in current form. I then get the impression the EU would create an energy monster (if you will) with an equity inflow large enough to take over rapid take-overs of other electricity suppliers... (Hence I suspect Brussels wouldn't stop just after liberalisation, they would want to fragment a state company as well.) Misguided thought?
