The drive to "green" the EU economy will only succeed if it provides real solutions for low income earners and works towards a "renewed sense of shared prosperity," according to Mario Sepi, president of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), an EU advisory body.

In order to manage the huge task of transforming the current energy system to fit climate considerations, it is important to keep future ground-breaking technology options open while making the early emission cuts by using energy more efficiently, Franklin M. Orr, director of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University, told EurActiv in an interview.

US President Barack Obama "does not care very much" about security in Europe, Edward Lucas, who has been The Economist's Eastern Europe correspondent for more than 20 years, told EurActiv Slovakia in an interview.