Power cables a source of eurozone tensions

Expensive market: Engineers near turbines at a wind farm in Sainte-Suzanne on the French island of Reunion. The country’s ruling National Rally wants to replace free trading with bilateral or multilateral contracts with its eurozone neighbours. — AFP

LONDON: The collapse of Norway’s government brings into focus the hundreds of cables transporting electricity across borders in Europe and how they’re being transformed into political weapons.

A dispute about exports of Norway’s cheap power is partly behind the government breakdown.