Sorry I couldn’t make it yesterday – I hope we ll find another date and time. Anyway am very curious how your work at this final stage goes on. Thanks for posts & research! You’ve done a great job… I have a feeling we miss a bit information on Russia (or is it me who… Read More Comments on your blog posts on Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine (3)
Summary: The EU member states still pursue varying natural gas strategies. While some of them focus on building bilateral energy relationships that are based on “market-based economic mechanisms” (Stefanova 2012), others frame their strategies geo-politically and aim at achieving independence from Russia for security reasons. This strategy diversity can result in energy infrastructure projects that… Read More Background & General Thoughts About a Market-Oriented External Energy Strategy of The EU
After short break am back with you and restarted reading your blog posts. Sorry for the delay! I did not manage to read all but at least some… I appreciate that you managed to cover almost all Europe. In general I see ~ 4 groups of countries emerging – proponents of NS2, opponents of NS2,… Read More Comments on your blog posts (2)
Summary Broadly spoken, a common EU policy towards Nord Stream 2 could take three directions: (i) a market-oriented approach that rejects a geo-politicization of the debate and counts on the integration of the European gas markets for ensuring supply security, (ii) a geo-economic approach that puts Nord Stream 2 on hold, uses hard sanctions against… Read More Mapping Out Scenarios For The Development of a Common EU Policy Towards Nord Stream 2
Hi, it is very interesting to read your posts. They are informative and show you go deeper in your research… They also show that whereas it is easy to find plenty of publications on some topics it might be more complicated to find a lot on the other (especially if you do not know languages… Read More Some comments on your blog posts
SummaryNord Stream 2 “is a project with neither economic rationale nor political backing” from an EU policy perspective. Since only half of the available gas import capacities in the EU were used in 2015, Nord Stream 2 will most probably lead to stranded assets. Furthermore, the pipeline conflicts with EU gas diversification strategies, efforts for… Read More EU Energy And Natural Gas Strategies & EU Position Towards Nord Stream 2
A summary can be found here. Hi guys, I continued my research on EU policy towards Nord Stream 2. This time, I put together a brief history of what has happened on the EU level so far. Also, I elaborated the EU mandate and the amendment of the gas directive that I’ve touched upon in… Read More A Brief History of EU Politics and Policy Towards Nord Stream 2
A summary can be found here. Hi guys, I found this extremely helpful Nord Stream 2 strategy paper by the European Political Strategy Centre (Link: https://ec.europa.eu/epsc/publications/other-publications/nord-stream-2-–-divide-et-impera-again_en). It analyses the project from an EU perspective and gives insights into its history and political context. In my summary, I concentrated on the relation of Nord Stream 2… Read More Nord Stream 2 and EU Energy Strategy
Nord Stream 2 Project: A clash of energy security, market & geostrategy in Europe 