ABSTRACT
Part III of the book began in Chapter 10 with a review of the evolution and current status of the EU's energy policy focusing on its implications for energy security. It was briefly explained there that national preferences and decisions have often prevailed over the common interests, and that a truly common market for energy does not exist at present. However, measures are gradually being adopted that are steadily heading in that direction and the EU's normative interventions during the past decade provide some grounds for optimism about the inception of a new European energy policy. Chapter 11 tested the convergence of energy security policies of the EU member states and found that a somewhat modest process of Europeanization is taking place but it is a process of differentiated convergence. With this situation, it is unclear that a one-fits -all approach could succeed in achieving a common European energy security policy but this approach should be preserved as a policy objective.
