Incentivising Integration through Energy and Energy Security?

Abstract

EU regional partnership initiatives all contain references to energy. This panel explores how the EU and its partners have sought to institutionalise energy cooperation (for example, the Energy Community), draw synergies across regional initiatives and support the development of an integrated European energy market. With reference to southeastern European and EaP states, questions are asked about whether enhanced cooperation on energy, linked to the ‘more for more’ principle, can provide suitable incentives for greater integration in economic and environmental spheres without increasing demands for political integration.