European Union gas follies, part two

The European Union has announced it’s going to sue Russia’s natural gas giant, Gazprom, for antitrust violations. This came only a few days after the EU announced it was filing a similar suit against Google.

It’s hard to say which decision is more short-sighted or obtuse — to sue Google simply because the US company innovates faster than its slow-moving European competitors, or to sue Putin’s natural gas monopoly in the hopes that it can loosen Vladimir Putin’s headlock on Europe’s energy supplies by unleashing a batch of Brussels bureaucrats and lawyers.