United in Diversity? What Europe Can Do With Its Energy Policy

Today, President Juncker delivers his yearly State of the Union speech. On the agenda will be yet another tireless attempt of addressing the "what kind of Europe we want" question, echoing the speech President Macron gave just about a week earlier in the Greek capital. As the EU elite is again performing some soul-searching for the European project as a whole, the European Parliament and member states are preparing one of the biggest energy policy reform in what will most certainly mark a tipping point in Europe's history. The Clean Energy Package, which first appears as a set of technical market rules and policy objectives, actually holds the potential to help Europe build a new economy and a more participative model of society....