text: The European Cohesion Policy is only halfway to accomplishing a paradigm shift to 
  open data, with differences in performance both between and - in some cases - within 
  European Countries. 
  
  Things don't go much better for the European Union in the energy field. Carlo Stagnaro wrote in 
  
  EU Energy Orwellianism: Ignorance Is Strength: 
  
  Energy is an active area of EU public policy. Yet authorities are not revealing 
  information (data is surely has) that is crucial to determine whether its policies are 
  distorting the market and come at too high a cost to society. This is a major fault in 
  Europe's credibility in advancing its policy goals, as well as a serious limitation to the 
  accountability of the policy making process 
  
  We realized that, while strongly supporting green investments the EU does not know, or 
  does not make it public, how much is spent every year on green subsidies... With regard 
  to green jobs, several estimates exist, but no official figure is provided. 
  
  More recently... I discovered that Eurostat does not tell how much coal capacity is 
  installed - as opposed to natural gas- or oil-fueled generation plants. It is possible to 
  know how much coal is used, but not the amount of fixed capital which is invested in 