Introduction
The European Union (EU), or more specifically the European Commission (EC), in order to ensure energy security, adopted a number of important measures within the internal and external dimensions of the EU’s energy policy. Above all, these measures involve diversification of external energy supplies, and strengthening of energy relations with existing and potential energy producers. North Africa plays an important role in this respect,2 since countries in this area control about 64.2 billion barrels of oil, and about 7.8 trillion cubic meters of gas.3