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Why Europe’s energy and climate policies are coming apart / David Buchan. Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, July 2013, 49 p. (SP 28)http://www.oxfordenergy.org/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/SP-28.pdf The European Union’s integrated energy and climate policy is coming apart. This is due to the effects of recession, and the impact of national renewable energy and back-up generation schemes, on the EU blueprint for a single energy market. New Commission guidelines will seek to Europeanize these national schemes, but this Europeanization effort assumes faster progress in cross-border integration than has been achieved so far. To mesh intermittent renewables with conventional energy back-up, and to maintain the geographical unity of Europe’s energy sector, may require a new concept of energy markets. (© OIES)&#160;