Severin Fischer is a research associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin. He talked to Europolitics about the energy union, which he believes will fall short of its ambitions, but which nevertheless will prove to be useful. The SWP is the largest foreign policy think tank in Europe and is financed by Angela Merkel's Federal Chancellery.
In a recent paper you co-authored in German, you argue that the energy union will have little direct…