Member states' national interests could complicate EU efforts to boost European energy security, it emerged from a European Commission paper leaked to German and Polish press.
"Energy using countries are starting to see each other as potential rivals for [energy] provision...just at a time when Europe imports more energy than ever before. This trend will further accelerate substantially," the leaked text states according to FT Deutschland.
The draft study was discussed on Wednes...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.