EU Winter Gas Package: The Next Phase of the Struggle to Strengthen Energy Resilience
EU Winter Gas Package: The Next Phase of the Struggle to Strengthen Energy Resilience

Author(s): Aleksandra Gawlikowska-Fyk, Witold Gruszczyński, Zuzanna Nowak
Subject(s): Energy and Environmental Studies, Economic policy
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: gas; energetics; energy security; Europe; European Union; natural gas - LNG
Summary/Abstract: In February 2016, the European Commission will present the Winter Gas Package, which is a real opportunity to strengthen the security of European gas consumers. The coming months will bring intense negotiations on essential details of documents that will determine the EU’s resilience to disruptions of gas supplies and influence the EU’s bargaining power in relation to third countries. The EC’s proposal contains several points included in Poland’s 2014 energy union concept, and hence, the Polish administration should be actively involved in shaping the contents of the package.

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