Eu-Russia Gas Blues
Journal: Graduate Institute Geneva Institutional Repository (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)
Year: 2015

EU-Russia gas relations have come under the spotlight following the annexation of Crimea and the eruption of civil war, with direct Russian involvement, in Eastern Ukraine. Yet tensions in gas relations have been building up for the last two decades, and are primarily related to Europe's strategic decision to unify the gas markets of the member countries and enforce competitive and transparent trading conditions. Gazprom, Russia's state-controlled natural gas company and the largest extractor of