Turkish Stream and its implications for the EU
A first assessment is that this would not work, EC Vice-President in charge of Energy Union Mr. Maros Sefcovic said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal at the […]
A first assessment is that this would not work, EC Vice-President in charge of Energy Union Mr. Maros Sefcovic said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal at the […]
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What is a European Energy Union? Well, this is a tough one. Although the European circles of power have been discussing the question since 2007 at least, the concept remains […]
The European electricity sector will have to deal with a huge challenge in the decades to come. On the one hand, electrical power is increasingly substituted for other forms of energy.
Despite years of normative advancements in EU energy policy, energy security is a relatively new concern in EU policymaking. It was mentioned for the first time in the Commission’s 2006 Green […]
On 11 March 2011, a devastating earthquake struck Japan and caused a major nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The disaster confirmed that nuclear reactors must be protected even against […]
For more than two decades, the development of renewable energy sources (RES) has been an important aim of EU energy policy. It accelerated with the adoption of a 1997 White Paper and […]
Conference with Mr. Jean-Pierre HANSEN, Member of the Executive Committee GDF SUEZ, Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain, the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), Visiting Scholar at MIT (Cambridge, US) More […]
Seminar. (Photo credit: zieak, Flickr )
Are we going towards a portfolio of domestic commitments made of voluntary pledges and legallybinding targets? What could be the legal form of the commitments (“legal differentiation” versus “legal symmetry”)? How […]
Expert seminar (restricted audience) (Photo credit : s-a-m, Flickr)