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Przegląd Europejski – European Studies Quarterly

Energy security of the European Union – opportunities and challenges

2019, No. 4

Dominika Czapla

0000-0002-8161-2775

University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland), Faculty of Political Science and International Studies

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0013.7891

Publication date

02.02.2020

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open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

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Humanities

Discipline

political and administrative sciences, international relations, sociology, law, economics and finance, management and quality studies, social communication and media studies

Language of publication

Polish, English

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Abstract

For many years, the future of energy has been one of the most important problems and challenges for both national and global policy making. It is related to the high responsibility of the energy sector for climate change on Earth, but also for caring about ensuring sufficient energy for the future generations. Thus, energy policy is an important pillar of maintaining, broadly understood as internal security of the country. The biggest challenge related to ensuring energy security of the European Union is the diversification of energy sources. Member States are trying to tackle this challenge in two ways. Firstly, through the development of renewable energy, and secondly, looking for new channels for the supply of non-renewable energy. The restructuring of the energy sector, which has taken place in recent years, in accordance with the guidelines of the European Union, aims to intensify the use of environmentally friendly renewable energy sources. Equally important is the construction of the Nord Stream 2 and Turk Steam gas pipelines, which has been ongoing for several years, which raises much controversy in the Member States. The article is an analysis of the opportunities and challenges facing the European Union related to ensuring stable energy supplies to European citizens.

Keywords:

energy security,renewable energy sources,energy policy

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