EUROPEAN ENERGY UNION: NATIONAL STRATEGIES OBSTACLES

The European energy sector is faced with serious challenges. While trying to solve the pressing issues unilaterally, Member States have been bypassing and disregarding the benefits of the internal energy market integration by implementing national energy strate­gies aimed at protecting the status quo. A European Energy Union is about optimization of resources and infrastructure on the European level. It is exactly the realization of this need of co-operation and addressing the problems from the European perspective which is still missing among the Member States.