title: The Black Sea and Blue Energy: Challenges, Opportunities and the Role of the European Union
abstract: The Black Sea is enormously valuable from different perspectives: economic, political, social, environmental, and strategic. Various sources of marine renewable energies can offer successful answers to some specific challenges in this basin. Therefore, the Black Sea needs a regional, or at least sub-regional, approach. Despite that the EU has undertaken different initiatives, there is room for improving the consistency of its actions. The EU should identify all the aspects in which it can help t