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This course provides a grand tour of EU energy and climate policy. It aims at offering students a comprehensive overview of the various policy dimensions characterizing this fascinating space: energy policy and climate policy themselves, but also industrial policy, fiscal policy, social policy, and foreign policy. The course pays particular attention to the political economy and governance aspects of the EU energy and climate policy, highlighting its fundamental drivers of change and discussing in a critical manner its challenges and potential prospects. While the course provides an EU-level overview on this set of issues, it also offers specific insights on individual EU countries’ energy and climate policy developments. Each class will be introduced by a short “Energy and climate news corner”, where students will shortly present in class the most important global development in this space, so to get used of being up to speed with ongoing energy and climate policy developments, at the EU level but also globally.