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Oil Companies and the EU' s external energy policies

16/09/2008 By Richard Youngs

In this article*, Richard Youngs suggests that European oil companies should attach greater priority to the systematic incorporation of energy questions into CFSP. Likewise, they should support a CFSP approach to energy security that is based on enhancing governance standards in producer states.

At present, debates over internal market liberalisation and renewables have captured the agenda in a way that the foreign policy challenges of energy security have failed to do within the private sector.

But in the long term, the geopolitics of energy will become increasingly important, even if the EU meets all its targets on emissions, renewables and energy efficiency.

*This article is included in the book “Oil, Gas, Energy: A plural view, a calm look”, published by Estudios de Política Exterior, SA (Madrid, Spain).

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CFSP Energy EU European Union Governance

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Bio author: Richard Youngs

Richard Youngs is Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Democratisation programme at FRIDE. He also lectures at the University of Warwick in the UK. He studied at Cambridge (BA Hons) and Warwick (MA, PhD) universities.