The European Union’s plan to establish a fully integrated internal energy market has been hampered by the regulatory tools chosen by the European Commission and weaknesses in the EU’s governance framework, says the European Court of Auditors (ECA) in a report published on Tuesday 31 January covering the period from mid-2015 to the end of 2021.
The integration of the national markets of the EU Member States, which started in 1996, was originally scheduled to be completed in 2014.
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