EU ministers at the Energy Council clashed with the Commission on 28 June by rejecting part of a proposal that would have enabled Brussels to nominate a co-ordinator to manage European projects for gas and electricity networks in the enlarged EU. 

Months of negotiations with Iran, led by France, UK and Germany, on giving up its nuclear enrichment programme may come to nought should  the new President take a hard-line stance. After his election on 24 June 2005, Ahmadi-Nejad, defiant that his country does not need the west, stated that Iran will continue its programme to develop nuclear energy.

The Commission has opened a debate on energy savings with potentially far-reaching consequences on several industries, including car-makers, with the presentation of its long-awaited Green Paper on Energy Efficiency on 22 June 2005.

Der EP-Ausschuss für Industrie, Forschung und Energie hat am 21. Juni einen Bericht von Claude Turmes (Grüne/EFA, Luxemburg) über erneuerbare Energien angenommen. 26 Abgeordnete stimmten für und fünf gegen den Bericht, 15 enthielten sich der Stimme. Obgleich die Abstimmung nicht bindend ist, signalisiert ihr Ausgang der Kommission, dass die Europaabgeordneten zusätzliche Maßnahmen zur Förderung erneuerbaren Energien unterstützen. 

Zwischen 1990 und 2003 sind die Treibhausgasemissionen der EU-15 lediglich um 1,7 % verringert worden. Im letzten Jahr sind sie laut des jüngsten Berichts der Europäischen Umweltagentur sogar um 1,3 % angestiegen.

Der am 21. Juni veröffentlichte Bericht bewertet die Fortschritte, die die EU seit 1990 – dem Bezugsjahr des Kyoto-Protokolls - hinsichtlich des Klimaschutzes erzielt hat. 

Die Zahlen für 2002-2003 deuten auf einen allgemeinen Anstieg der Emissionen um 53 Millionen Tonnen hin: 

Renewable energies could take a much greater share of EU electricity generation if only member states would end subsidising their coal and nuclear industries, Greenpeace environmental campaigners and renewable energy producers have said on 13 June.

Producers of renewable energy currently lack the long term investment security to let clean electricity represent a significant proportion of EU power generation by 2010, Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) have told the Brussels  press.

The Parliament on 8 June 2005 backed a report from Anne Laperrouze MEP (ALDE, France) on guidelines to fund the extension of current gas and electricity transmission networks in the enlarged EU. 

The first Energy Dialogue aimed to enhance cooperation between OPEC and the EU "in the interest of producers and consumers". Discussions focused on oil prices, greater data transparency and investment needs, especially for refineries. According to an EU official, the UK minister also addressed the link between energy policies and climate change.

A practical follow-up programme was defined with:

The Parliament on 7 June backed mandatory targets for savings in energy sold and distributed to final consumers, whether public or private. 

The draft covers electricity, heat and fuel - including transport fuel - in an equal manner so that imbalances are not created between sectors in a European energy market gradually opening up to competition. It targets both the demand and the supply side of the energy market by creating incentives for reduction.

Die 1768 km lange Pipeline Baku-Tbilissi-Ceyhan (BTC) verbindet das Kaspische Meer mit dem Mittelmeer. Sobald sie ganz fertig gestellt ist, soll sie pro Tag über eine Million Tonnen Erdöl (ungefähr 1 Prozent der globalen Gesamtförderung) befördern.