Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/256187 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
SWP Comments No. 8/2012
Publisher: 
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
Abstract: 
With the Energy Roadmap 2050 of December 2011, the European Commission has opened the debate about the future shape of Europe's energy sector. But two central conflicts within the Union narrow the relevance of this planning instrument in the ongoing political process. Firstly, the European consensus that climate policy should determine energy policy, which has held since 2007, is likely to erode. Secondly, formulating European targets for 2050 suggests a greater scope of governance than the EU actually possesses, mainly because the European treaties still reserve the decisive role in shaping the energy mix for the member states. If the governments of the EU member states take the long-term approach of a European energy roadmap seriously, they would have to accept a major curtailment of their national sovereignty over energy policy
Document Type: 
Research Report

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