Russo-Ukrainian Gas War: The Lack of a Common Strategy Jeopardizes European Unity
Journal: Advances in Economics and Business
Year: 2016

Despite low attention level in Western media, Ukrainian crisis is not just a local issue, and it is going to jeopardize European integration process due to geopolitical key position of Ukraine in natural gas delivery system. In facts, besides military race, carrying real dangers, a parallel gas war is staging in Ukraine, where U.S.A. – new hydrocarbon exporter thanks to 'shale revolution' – is trying to break the Russian monopoly on Europe, by opening new energetic supply routes, in order to pre