The EU is the third largest energy consuming region in the world and believes its energy concepts and energy technology a world leader. Affected by the financial crisis and the European debt crisis, the energy consumption growth had been quite slow since 2008.But it picked up after 2010. Also under the influence of the Fukushima nuclear accident, Germany announced phasing out of nuclear power, which was absolutely a negative factor to the EU energy industry.EU energy policy focus is two fold: First, to establish good relationship with energy suppliers such as Russia, OPEC and others for a stable energy supply; second, to establish unified EU energy market, to promote energy structure optimization, efficiency improvement and to take good stead in response to global climate change negotiations. <<