The emerging European energy union, which the Council has endorsed, could be the ideal vehicle to facilitate this shift. The problem is that EU leaders have yet to define a compelling and effective strategy for building it.

Electricity grids are the key infrastructure element that will connect the EU power markets.

That dispute, in turn, exposes the European Union s fragmented energy supply system and lack of political cohesion, which undermines its ability to forge a long term energy strategy.

In their research paper, Energy Security An Impact Assessment of the EU Climate and Energy Package, Böhringer and Keller note that the EU has never set itself a clear metric for energy security.

But collective energy security requires increasing the EU s ability to face and face down external energy challenges.

The observer for Luxembourg, speaking on behalf of the European Union, referred to the recent adoption of the European Union Drugs Strategy (2005 2012), which set clear objectives for the coming years.

Of course, the notion of energy security is fuzzy. In their research paper, Energy Security An Impact Assessment of the EU Climate and Energy Package, Böhringer and Keller note that the EU has never set itself a clear metric for energy security.

There is an alternative an economic growth strategy supported by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.

The development of renewable energy sources should play a major part in any integrated EU energy policy.

But the asymmetry in European Union Russian energy relations must end.

In 2008, renewable energy (mainly hydropower and various forms of wood energy) was high at 31 compared with the EU average of 10.3 in final energy consumption.

While EU leaders believe that peace and stability is built through interdependence, Russia s leaders are intent on creating a situation in which the EU needs Russia more than Russia needs the EU, particularly in the energy sector.

If making a product in the EU costs more because of higher energy costs, the product will likely be made somewhere else, where energy is cheaper, and then imported into the EU.

Merkel s proposals do not reflect a German strategy aimed at leading the EU through this crisis.

The observer for Luxembourg, speaking on behalf of the European Union, made reference to the European Union Drugs Strategy (2005 2012) and emphasized its role as a tool for strengthening cooperation and the coordination of drug control policies in Europe.

Even current EU members feel abandoned by the Union there is a growing sense in the three Baltic Countries, Poland, and Hungary that the EU is allowing them to be squeezed by Russia, particularly on energy policy.

The observer for Luxembourg, speaking on behalf of the members of the European Union, made reference to the European Union Drugs Strategy (2005 2012) and emphasized its role as a tool for strengthening cooperation and the coordination of drug control policies in Europe.

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Households consume one third of the final energy used in the European Union and produce around two thirds of municipal waste.

The EU urgently needs to build a common energy policy and a single market for natural gas.

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The EU needs a well defined energy strategy that helps to overcome the trust deficit that is hampering effective solutions. This means, first and foremost, establishing clear and predictable community rules and cost sensitive policies for the energy union.

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In any comprehensive strategy for engagement with Asia, the EU is only as strong as its parts.

It will be based on the principles of African ownership, equality and mutual accountability. And it will launch a new European Union Africa strategic partnership, setting the course of the relationship for the long term.

Consolidation is giving way to friction, with more energy needed to overcome the EU s internal problems.

The EU now needs to develop a single European body for international energy negotiations.

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Of course, a common EU security strategy is not meant to undermine the rights of individual member states to choose their internal energy policies. But collective energy security requires increasing the EU s ability to face and face down external energy challenges.

Under the European Union (EU) Action Plan for the Republic of Moldova, signed in February 2005, his Government was committed to following the EU Strategy against Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and its export control regimes.

The European Union will then follow with a mission of its own, and we will support the EU in this endeavor.

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The EU has also suddenly awakened to the need for a common external energy security policy, not least to diversify away from Russian supplies.

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In building the means to secure Europe s energy future, we will also renew the spirit of European integration and give new strength to the EU as a global actor.