Tackling Dependency: The EU and its Energy Security Challenges

Europe is facing a future of augmenting energy demands, domestic depletion, high prices and other energy-political challenges. Climate change, infrastructure resilience, producers’ coercive energy policy and the EU’s internal market failures have put stress on the EU’s emerging energy policy and inspired the union to address its challenges with greater enthusiasm than before. Some of the EU’s challenges call for strategic choices of a magnitude that EU is not used to handle. The aim of this report is therefore to identify, analyse and assess the political side of Europe’s energy predicament and import dependency. Against the background of increasing dependence on energy imports, the report tries to answer questions: what are the key dimensions of Europe’s energy security and what are their consequences?