Energy Policy of European Union: An Evaluation with regard to the Energy Supply Security

Year 2018, Volume: 3 Issue: 6, 17 - 25, 08.08.2018

Younes Gholizadeh , Müslime Narin

Abstract

After the
global oil crisis, especially after the interruption of natural gas flow coming
through Ukraine, the attempts to improve the energy policy in European Union
accelerated. The dependency of European Union on external sources has damaged
the trust for sustainable energy supply in Europe.

As a result of such lessening trust for energy
supply, the European Union authorities have concentrated on diversification of
the energy supply sources. Especially, authorities of European Commission  started to design  energy policy after crisis of natural gas
transfer from Ukraine.  Accordingly, the
rebuilding of the trust for energy supply requires to increase European
Commission role in the making of energy policy.  

Keywords

energy policy, european union, energy supply security

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