If it connected its national grids together into a European one, argues Dieter Helm, an energy economist at Oxford University, that would lower the costs of operation by enough to transform the economics of the business.
By dignifying as an international conflict virtually any "progressive" guerilla operation, this accord helps transform terrorists into protected combatants for the purposes of the Geneva Conventions.
It is the kind of can-do attitude that helped transform a small animal-feed operation started less than 30 years ago in the southern Taiwan city of Tainan into today's conglomerate.