From the European Energy Community to the Energy Union

(EurActiv, 26 Feb 2015) It is essential to mobilize all citizens around the energy transition in which the world is engaged and required to adopt common measures to keep the increase of temperature below 2°C. The release of the Energy Union package by the European Commission is the first major step in the European wide debate to give life and to create public support to this challenging project, write Jacques Delors, Sami Andoura and Jean-Arnold Vinois.

Jacques Delors is the founding president of the Jacques Delors Institute .  Sami Andoura is senior research fellow at the Jacques Delors Institute and professor and holder of the European energy policy Chair at the College of Europe. Jean-Arnold Vinois is adviser at the Jacques Delors Institute.

In order to assist the stakeholders involved in this complex task of energy transition, the Jacques Delors Institute issued an extensive report analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of the present European energy policy, proposing ten imm ediate actions to address the identified shortcomings and envisaging a much wider longer term project of Energy Union relying on ten building blocks.

It is time to give energy its logical and necessary place in the European project, in line with what European citizens have been demanding for several years now.  It is time to stop conducting 28 national policies, leading to ruinous costs for the citizens. And it is time to build on the best possible combination of resources and infrastructures that are available in Europe.

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EurActiv, 26 Feb 2015: From the European Energy Community to the Energy Union