Gazprom says call for energy break-up is absurd

Gazprom, the Russian state- controlled gas group, poured scorn February 2007 on a proposal by the European Commission to break up some of the European Union's biggest energy companies. Alexander Medvedev, the deputy chairman of the leading gas supplier to the EU, said of the Commission's call: 'I believe it is the most absurd idea in the history of the world economy'.