Gazprom’s expansion in the EU: co-operation or domination?
Gazprom’s expansion in the EU: co-operation or domination?

Author(s): Agata Loskot-Strachota
Subject(s): Energy and Environmental Studies, Environmental and Energy policy, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: OSW Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich im. Marka Karpia
Keywords: Gazprom; EU
Summary/Abstract: The energy sector, especially with regard to the gas trade, is one of the key areas of co-operation between the EU and Russia. However, the form this co-operation has taken has been giving rise to some concern, both in Brussels and in the EU member states. Questions arise as to whether the EU has not become excessively dependent on Russia for energy, and whether the presence of the Russian gas monopoly in the EU does not enable Russian interference with the development of EU energy policy. The objective of this series of OSW reports is to provide facts which will permit an accurat answer to these questions to be formulated.

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