Energy geopolitics
Dalia Grybauskaitė: Energy Is Not Economy, It's Geopolitics! Who says there is a lack of leaders in the EU? The president of little Lithuania proves the exact opposite. Dalia Grybauskaitė is well known at the European scene. She was the first Lithuanian European commissioner and besides was in charge of a very important portfolio in the first commission ...
Something Like an Energy Union but Rather Just Another Strategy In the past years, in the EU, there is a new trend to talk about unions. Everything started with the banking union because this has been the greatest step toward deepening the European integration since the introduction of the single currency. It is completely justified to call it a banking unio ...
Energy Dependence Dooms EU to Instability The European Commission President-elect Jean-Claude Juncker is a firm proponent of the concept of an energy union, proposed by Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk who was one of the strongest candidates to head the European Council but, as The Financial Times revealed last week, his nomination w ...
Asymmetry of Competitiveness If it was not for the crisis, hardly there would have been a battle with the tax havens and the impediments to the completion of the EU single market of energy. A remark of the sorts uttered European Council President Herman Van Rompuy after the end of a really odd and short EU summit on Ma ...
Passing 2014 without a Single Energy Market? The single energy market has been on the European Commission's agenda for quite some time now. It is set to be accomplished by 2014, but currently it looks as if the EU is set to miss its 2014-target. In its recent communication, published on 15 November 2012, the Commission admits that the "EU ...
Energy Integration - Now or Never In the spirit of the forceful personality split of the most energy dependent EU member states which, like Bulgaria, state their strong love for the Russian culture but in the same time their as strong hatred for its authoritarian rule, in Brussels the atmosphere is identical. On 19-23 March ther ...
EU Has Circled Bulgaria on the Geopolitical Napkin After so many years of controversy, pressure, disputes and uncertainties, a week ago Russia's President Vladimir Putin surprised everyone by announcing the end of the geopolitical energy project South Stream. The selection of place, the rhetorics used and the essence of his statement caused a wa ...
From Common Energy Market Toward Energy Union The eurozone crisis erupted in the beginning of 2009 when it slightly started to become clear that in its foundation were instable architecture, various standards, political and financial cultures. When one after another governments started to default, while there was hysteria on the internation ...
Тhe Arctic Council: Climate Change’s Butterfly Effect Do we remember the catastrophic consequences of the Hurricane Katrina throughout the United States of America in 2005? Or maybe the tornado outbreak in mid-May 2013, which produced several damaging tornadoes in a row in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Alabama. All of these devastating e ...
Will Croatia Elope with Gazprom for South Stream? "Croatia is under huge pressure by Russian company Gazprom and the Kremlin to sign a new bilateral agreement to regulate relations and rights related to the construction of the South Stream gas pipeline! And that before Croatia joins the EU". This is how the leading article of the Sunday edition ...
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