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Created on Tuesday, 10 February 2015 14:52

“We need to pool our resources, combine our infrastructures and unite our negotiating power with third countries.” President Juncker’s political guidelines. Europe relies too heavily on fuel and gas imports. We need to reduce this dependency while keeping our energy market open to countries outside the EU. We owe it to future generations to limit the impact of climate change and to keep energy affordable – by using more energy from renewable sources and becoming more energy efficient. Objectives

• Creating a European Energy Union – by pooling resources, connecting networks and uniting our power when negotiating with non EU countries.
• Diversifying our energy sources – so Europe can quickly switch to other supply channels if the financial or political cost of importing from the East becomes too high.
• Helping EU countries become less dependent on energy imports.
• Making the EU the world number one in renewable energy and leading the fight against global warming.

Full text from President Juncker’s Political Guidelines