The UK's Llyn and Inner Dowsing wind farm. Along with France and the Netherlands, the UK is likely to fall short of its 2020 renewable targets. (Centrica)

Investment & Finance

EU countries fall behind 2020 renewables targets

The UK, France and the Netherlands are still a long way from meeting their 2020 renewables obligations, and it is unclear if new national subsidy regimes will spur enough investment.

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Gazprom Chairman Alexei Miller and his Botas counterpart Mehmet Konuk sign the Turkish Stream deal. (Gazprom)

Energy Security

Turkey’s future transit role stirs debate

Opinion is divided on how Turkey’s growing importance as a transit country for gas will affect the EU’s security of supply.

Bulgaria stopped building South Stream after the EU said the country’s IGA with Russia contravened EU law. (Gazprom)

Competition Law

The EU’s long road to transparent IGAs

The European Commission wants more transparent intergovernmental agreements on energy, but will have to overcome fierce opposition from member states.

MEPs Giovanni La Via (left) and Ivo Belet from the European Parliament's ENVI committee at a press briefing following the MSR vote. (EP)

Environmental Policy

EU ETS reform vote receives mixed reaction

Stakeholders in the gas and power industry had hoped for a more ambitious reform of the EU’s Emissions Trading System than the compromise reached in the European Parliament last week.