"New and ambitious or just more of the same? The Energy Union at a crossroads"

Europe’s energy policy which started about 30 years ago, the so-called internal energy market, has run out of steam. Launched with the idea that liberalisation and free markets would increase competitiveness and reduce energy prices, the internal market agenda has suffered as much from national opposition tactics as from its unsuitability to tackle the other challenges of energy policy: securing energy supplies and building an integrated energy system that effectively as well as substantially reduces CO2 emissions. More...