This third monograph of the Ifri program on European Governance

and Geopolitics of Energy is devoted to the program's first annual

conference on the "External Energy Policy of the European Union."

The conference took place from January 31 to February 1, 2008, at the

Palais Egmont, in Brussels, Belgium.

Representatives of the European Commission, national governments,

academia, and industry examined the European perspectives on the

highly topical issue of external energy policy and assessed their relative

prospects. The purpose of the conference was to take stock of current

policies and to develop perspectives for the future.

This monograph comprises five chapters:

- A background paper prepared by Jacques Lesourne. A version of

this document was given to the speakers prior the conference. It provided

a set of questions that were designed to orient their reflection.

- Three background papers that introduced some of the questions to

be addressed during the three sessions. These papers were written by

Jan Horst Keppler, professor at Université Paris-Dauphine and Senior

Research Associate at the Ifri Energy Program; Roland Götz, Senior

Research Fellow at the Institute for International and Security Affairs

(SWP), Berlin; and Coby van der Linde, Senior Research Fellow and

Director of the Clingendael International Energy Programme (CIEP).

- An assessment of the main points raised during the exchanges

among the conference participants and an evaluation of the European

Union's external energy policy written by J. Lesourne.