The meeting is to be convened at a very intensive political time when a new European Parliament has just been formed and a new European Commission, presided over by Jean-Claude Juncker, is expected to start its activities, hopefully from the 1st of November, 2014. We should have new recipes on how to solve a lot of problems which the EU is facing, such as: no visible positive results concerning re-industrialisation policies, which are closely related with very high unemployment, especially for the young generation; a decrease in the EU’s industrial competiveness when set against external, non-EU economies; an increase of dependency on fossil fuel imports whilst, at the same time, not exploiting enough our own indigenous sources of energy; very high energy prices (around two times more) than external economies; still very high carbon leakage; huge economic disproportions between old and new EU member states, etc. Also, still a lot of questions remain with regard to energy security and the Internal Energy Market? The key question is: what are the EU’s priorities? From CEEP’s perspective, the above points should be on the agenda of the European Council Meeting in October, and then relayed to the newly established European Commission, as well as the Parliament to set the priorities for the future of the EU. We know that the agenda will not be changed and that climate issues will be discussed without the possibility for Mr. Juncker to prepare the new Commission’s position on climate and emissions issues. The interrelationship of the problems listed above should be considered, so that we know, to what extent, climate issues have a detrimental [...]
We represent the widely understood Central Europe energy sector (electricity generation, distribution and transmission, renewables, gas, oil, heat generation and distribution, chemical industries, etc.), universities and scientific institutions.
