Energy is getting higher and higher on the EU agenda, as well as financial regulation and the euro crisis. Tensions with Russia and Eastern neighbours concerning energy transit throughout the last decade as well as rapidly changing political landascape in the Mediterreanean region have moved the European Commission to advance a broader European energy agenda which aims to a certain extent to increase European integration and collective political action on this matter.
In November 2010 the European Commission operationalised the objectives of the Lisbon Treaty regarding EU energy policy by adopting the communication “Energy 2020: A strategy for competitive, sustainable and secure energy”…
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