Unia Energetyczna – nowy etap polityki energetycznej Unii Europejskiej?
Energy Union – A New Stage of the Energy Policy of the European Union?

Summary/Abstract: Energy Union is a project promoted in response to the energy crisis from 2009 between Russia and Ukraine. The objective of this project is to provide energy security, first and foremost, to all the states which depend on the supply of the energy resources (e.g. gas) from only one side. The problem in the operation of the Energy Union is the presence, within the EU, of two contradictory standpoints represented by the member states of the western and of the mid-eastern EU. The states and companies in the western part of the EU believe that the gas market has enough liquidity for them and it should be influenced mostly by business and economic factors. The countries within the Middle and Eastern Europe, whose experiences after the gas crises is quite bad, claim that they are paying more for gas than the countries within the western part of the European Union. This paper is an attempt to find answers to the following research questions: What does the Energy Union consist in and what are its objectives and principles? What new will be brought by the Energy Union to the contemporary energy policy of the European Union? Will Energy Union eliminate the weaknesses of the European Union and increase its energy security? The structure of the paper was determined by the research procedure and by the answers to the research questions, comprising: introduction, contemporary challenges of the European Union energy policy, the project and concept of the Energy Union and the conclusions.

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