The EU's Energy Worries

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"The EU's Energy Worries

The European Union has many problems and worries. A relatively new one of these worries is the matter of energy security. Emerging in the past several years, this concern is raised in almost every meeting, summit and report, and EU leaders also mention it constantly. Javier Solana, the EU security and foreign policy representative, is the latest leader to voice this concern. Proclaiming his anxiety in a dramatic way at the energy security conference held this week in Brussels, he gave the following message: “Today the struggles to be made in the energy field may take the place of past struggles to conquer land. We should take our energy wherever we find it. Even though energy markets are becoming increasingly global, today a large section of the worlds’ gas and petroleum reserves are located in unstable and non-democratic regions."