At the most senior level. It would be illusory to expect any immediate results in a domain as complex as EU relations with non-EU gas and oil supplier countries. The ad hoc summit, however, organised by Mr Van Rompuy at the beginning of February, is a first significant step (see this column yesterday). Following the polemic surrounding the publication of the US embassy cables, the Italian minister for foreign affairs, Franco Frattini, has declared that with regard to energy supply, “our...