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Europe's energy policy: economics, ethics, geopolitics
10/01/2007 By Richard Youngs
The European Commission's energy green paper published on 8 March 2006 promised a ‘better integration’ of energy objectives into the European Union's foreign and security policies.
But, as the Commission publishes its strategic energy review ten months later, on 10 January 2007, the EU's approach to the foreign policy dimension of energy security continues to be unduly narrow and short-termist.
Indeed, the EU's current policies sit so uneasily with the Union's commitment to uphold democratic values that they risk undermining the stronger aspects of its international identity - and thus actually working against its own long-term interests.
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Keywords
Democracy Energy Security EU European UnionBio author: Richard Youngs
Democracy promotion. EU foreign policy.
