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Because EU members still depend on oil and gas imports to fulfill over half of their energy needs, they’re working towards a collective energy policy that will depend more on renewables and diversified sources of natural gas. The strategy is a viable one, argues this paper's author, but it also faces a serious problem – the lingering insistence on energy sovereignty by individual states. It’s this resolve that’s 1) hampering the formation of unified EU energy markets, and 2) creating an “adverse energy geometry” defined by market fragmentation, increased supply risks, and potential dangers to EU unity and security.