Brussels, 29/10/2009 (Agence Europe) - Twice in the course of his term of office, Peter Mandelson, Catherine Ashton's predecessor in the post of Trade Commissioner, publicly raised the issue of energy in trade policy. At a conference on external energy policy in Brussels in December 2006, and in a speech on globalisation and free trade in Cambridge in February 2008, Mandelson, who is currently UK Enterprise Minister, argued for international rules in the field of energy to be strengthened,...