Cleaning the neighbourhood: how the EU can scrub out bad energy policy

The EU should stop buying electricity from countries which allow highly polluting power stations to operate. This would be consistent with international trade rules, as long as the EU applied the same rules to power stations inside and outside of its borders. The EU should instead support energy efficiency and clean energy programmes in neighbouring countries through the Energy Community, which was set up in 2006 to help improve Balkan energy infrastructure and since expanded to Black Sea states.