2005年整个欧洲的煤炭工业Coal industry across Europe2005

能源是国家和欧洲决策者的一个重要问题。政策需要支持经济的能源供应和能源使用，从而确保欧洲企业在全球范围内保持竞争力。它们还必须确保供应安全，并符合环境目标。煤炭，包括硬煤和褐煤，对欧洲乃至全世界的能源结构做出了重大贡献。这也适用于未来，尽管煤炭在人们心目中常常与过去联系在一起——工业革命和50年代欧洲机构的建立

Energy is an important issue for policy-makers both nationally and at European level. Policies need to support energy supply and energy use that is economic, thus ensuring that European business remains competitive in a global context. They must also ensure security of supply, and be consistent with environmental objectives. Coal, both hard coal and lignite, makes a major contribution to the energy mix in Europe as well as worldwide. This also holds true for the future, although coal is all too often associated in people’s minds with the past – with the industrial revolution and the creation of the European institutions in the 50s.