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 includes five chapters:

- Chapter 1: External Energy Policy of the European Union by Jacques Lesourne, Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Ifri Energy Program.
- Chapter 2: Building a Common European Energy Policy Around a Market Based Approach by Jan Horst Keppler, Professor at Université Paris-Dauphine and Senior Research Associate at the Ifri Energy Program.
- Chapter 3: European Energy Foreign Policy and the Relationship with Russia by Roland Götz, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin.
- Chapter 4: Turning A Weakness Into A Strenght: A Smart Energy External Policy For Europe by Coby van der Linde, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Clingendael International Energy Programme (CIEP).
- Chapter 5: Views on Europe's Domestic and Foreign Energy Policy by Jacques Lesourne, Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Ifri Energy Program.

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