Just when it seemed as if the European Union was finally getting its act together on a common energy policy, along comes a member state and throws a bucket of sand into the machine.
This time it is Austria. OMV, the energy group where the state has a big stake, has sold a €1.2bn holding in Mol, Hungary's oil and gas company, to Surgutneftegaz, a Russian oil group with close Kremlin ties.
