By François Gemenne (Researcher at FNRS (Belgium) and co-author of the sixth IPCC report)Thierry Mallet (CEO of Transdev)
The paradox is striking. In the baptismal font of the European Union, energy holds an essential place. From the Treaty on Coal and Steel, signed on April 18, 1951, to Euratom concluded six years later, on March 25, 1957, in order to seal nuclear cooperation, energy has been one of the cements of the agreement between states.
In 2024, on the eve of the European elections in June, energy finds itself torn between the EU which hopes to accelerate the ecological transition by relying on the Green Deal (the “Green Deal”) and certain of its States members who are struggling to agree on the energy policies to be pursued.