Under the impetus of their Estonian colleague, Kadri Simson, the energy ministers of the EU were busy, as we were going to press on Monday 18 December, in 'marathon' negotiations to try to reach political agreements in principle ('general orientations') on three of the eight texts of the legislative package on green energy - the regulation on the internal electricity market, the regulation on the governance mechanism of the Energy Union and the revised directive on renewables - ahead of...