The EU's energy efficiency action plan is more realistic than related ideas on single market reform and a common energy foreign policy, experts say, but the real challenge will be selling the pro-green EU model to carbon guzzlers the US and China in future.
Thursday's (19 October) plan proposes 75 measures aimed at slashing energy waste by 20 percent by 2020 in what could cut annual oil imports by 390 million tonnes - twice the oil the EU buys in from Russia - wipe out 780 million tonne...
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Already a member? Login hereAndrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.
Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.