True. But: EU is the only effective player in the world that drives energy policy outside its borders, by being a massive market with regulatory power regardin

True. But: EU is the only effective player in the world that drives energy policy outside its borders, by being a massive market with regulatory power regarding its imports. If you look at three figures: energy use per capita, emissions per capita, and GDP per unit of energy/emissions, and include imported consumption, the EU's are all trending in a positive direction for many years now. So stating the EU has de-industralized and its progress on shutting down coal is therefore 'fake' and misleading because it imports its industrial consumption from other countries to which it has simply offloaded its emissions, isn't true.