EC: energy union top priority

According to Jean-Claude Juncker, an integrated energy market is one of the most important challenges faced by the EU. A recent debate in the European Parliament focused on an upcoming summit of EU leaders. Energy will be one of the main topics, as well as relations with Russia and the situation in Ukraine. The European Commission president reminded that the EU imports 53 percent of its energy to a tune of €400 billion. Maintaining 28 separate contracts is clearly a waste of money. He believes that an energy union is possible if the member states are willing to cooperate on the matter. Andrzej Duda, EU parliamentarian and a candidate for the Polish presidency, spoke in support of member states' options to use local energy resources including coal.