Energy quarrel, topless protest mark EU-Russia summit

A lively disagreement on energy and a protest by four topless women marked the end of the EU-Russia summit in Brussels on Friday (21 December).

In a rerun of a similar dispute between Russian leader Vladimir Putin and European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso in Brussels last year, the two men traded verbal blows on the EU's third energy package.

The law came into force in March 2011.

In what is known as its "Gazprom clause" or "unbundling," it says that Russia's ene...