A web of commercial relationships and oil and gas pipelines once again exposed the mutually limiting knot by Ukraine crisis in 2014. It was the root cause that kept bind the European Union and Russia together. The crisis also led to a familiar problem distracted minds in the corridors of power in Western capitals: how to constrain Russia to regard the Western geopolitical preferences without harming European allies? As previously the answer was the longer term need for gaining energy independence without sacrificing energy security in the EU and the lack of desired short term solutions.
The case annals most recent endeavors, and its unintended outcomes, by all-union executives in Brussels to unfasten the Russian knot by embedding American inventions in the European soil: natural gas market with transparency, liberalized, and shale gas production. Russian and European energy companies’ executives show their perspectives.
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