Gazprom's expansion in the EU: co-operation or domination? OSW Report, October 2009

Łoskot-Strachota, Agata and Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, Katarzyna and Brunarska, Zuzanna and Daborowski, Tomasz and Hyndle, Joanna and Paszyc, Ewa and Wisniewska, Iwona (2009) Gazprom's expansion in the EU: co-operation or domination? OSW Report, October 2009. UNSPECIFIED.

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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 (for the previous edition,see Gazprom’s expansion in the EU: co-operation or domination? April 2008 – pdf 1.2 MB) is to provide facts which will permit an accurat answer to these questions to be formulated.

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