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Energy is currently a central strategic issue.
The various EU countries, due to their high energy dependence, aspire to dominate the exploitation of existing energy resources, hence the proposal to create an energy strand within the common foreign and security policy. If adopted, this would also form a way of overcoming the contradictions existing between the main powers.
To do this, the EU should announce its ‘market’, its ‘competition’ and its enlargement to other countries in the framework of the so-called ‘energy communities’, the ‘Energy Charter Treaty’ – ensuring ‘security of investment’ and guaranteeing a ‘right to compensation in the event of expropriation and/or nationalisation’ – or the inclusion of an ‘energy security clause’ in commercial agreements. All of this can be controlled, hence its fear of the creation of a ‘gas version of OPEC’.
The majority of Parliament also defends ‘establishing an Energy Security Partnership with the US’ and, of course, a ‘critical and constructive dialogue’ with the countries in the South Caucasus, Caspian and Central Asia regions ‘which balances the EU’s interest in diversifying its oil and gas supplies and the goal of achieving political reforms in those countries’. More words for whom? Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa ...?"@en1
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