DEPENDENCE ON RUSSIAN GAS WORRIES SOME – BUT NOT ALL – EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Synopsis:
Article chronicling energy security issues in the European Union
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A month after Russia cut off gas supplies to the Ukraine for the first time in 2006, German Chancellor
Angela Merkel said that the European Union – which gets 40 percent of its gas from Russia – needed to develop a
common energy policy over the next 15 years to guarantee supply security.
At the same time, Russian energy monopoly Gazprom, along with its German partners E.On and BASF-Wintershall, were
deciding on "Nord Stream" as the name for a pipeline that would make Germany heavily dependent on Russia for energy
for decades to come.
Two years later, rumors of a common European energy policy are again circling Brussels. Russia rattled the European
Union this week when it cut Ukrainian shipments by half, prompting Ukraine to threaten –briefly – to
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Transatlantic relations; Russian affairs; energy security
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Original Published Source:
Christian Science Monitor
Original Publish Date:
2008-03-06
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