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Energy & democracy / Comment

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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Democracy Energy Security EU European Union

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.