EU leaders will grapple with controversial issues including shale gas development and climate change mitigation at an energy summit on 22 May, documents obtained by EurActiv show. As agreed at the 14-15 March summit, EU leaders will meet to discuss how to lower energy prices and so improve the Union’s industrial competitiveness. Competitiveness, in the EU energy policy context, translates into a re-thinking of the Union’s climate policies. Recently, the powerful employers’ group BusinessEurope called on European Commission President José Manuel Barroso to radically shift the EU’s energy policy away from climate change mitigation towards cost-competitiveness and security of supply. --EurActiv, 8 May 2013
