Commission adopts strategy for European Energy Union

(external-resource, 27 Feb 2015) The European Commission has adopted its European Energy Union Package (25 February). It includes three communications, covering a “Framework Strategy for a Resilient Energy Union with a Forward-Looking Climate Change Policy, and Interconnection Communication, and a communication setting out a vision for a global climate agreement in Paris in December.

Fortunately, and as always, the Commission’s information package is available in English – so no need for us to come up with a translation from a German text. And the communications also come with a “ citizen’s summary ” (and with additional “executive summaries” in the actual communications).

As background, Commission communications are policy documents that do not have legal authority. Communications are published documents of the Commission setting out its thinking on a specific issue.

In (mainly) the words of the Commission, the three Energy Union Package Communications cover:

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