Title: Russia’s gas pipeline strategy and Europe’s alternatives – European Council on Foreign Relations
Headings: Russia’s gas pipeline strategy and Europe’s alternatives
Russia’s gas pipeline strategy and Europe’s alternatives
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Content: Should this rationalisation happen, then the Russians could ‘flood’ European markets with cheap gas, fuelling the much sought re-industrialisation of European economies. But this would require more than just a rational business plan – investing political capital to rebuild trust at the highest level between Russia and Europe, and most importantly, between Russia and Ukraine. Russia’s pipeline strategy and the threat to gas supplies pose real challenges, but instead of focusing on real diversification, the Commission has to mediate the negotiations and be the ‘financial broker’. Chi-Kong Chyong is Director of Energy Policy Forum, EPRG, University of Cambridge and the author of the ECFR publication Why Europe should support reform of the Ukrainian gas market – or risk a cut-off (October 2014). The European Council on Foreign Relations does not take collective positions. ECFR publications only represent the views of its individual authors. Author
Chi-Kong Chyong
ECFR Alumni · Former Visiting Fellow