Liberalization reforms on the energy sector of the European Union

This briefly paper discusses the difficulties existing in the European Union to construct a common energy policy. More specifically, it studies in what extent the reforms that have been boosted by the institutions of EU on the electricity and gas sectors since the nineties facilitate or accentuate the difficulties to construct an European energy policy. The analysis shows that the new energy stage is characterized by the dominance of big transnational corporations and the weak regulation capacity of the national governments as the European institutions.