If you produce more than 1,000 pages of legalese as the European Commission did with its proposals for the various directives and regulations of the EU energy package, you understandably have the urge to present the outcome with dramatic words full of praise.

That must have prompted commission vice president for energy union Maros Sefcovic to call the proposals the “biggest change” to the continent’s energy system “since central power systems were built in Europe.”

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