EU Competition Policy and Market Liberalization; Using the Gazprom Antitrust Case to Examine the EU Influence on Russian Energy Policy
Journal: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Year: 2019

To examine the EU influence on Russian energy policy, this thesis isolates EU competition policy in natural gas markets and considers the European Commission’s antitrust proceedings against Russian-state owned Gazprom. By applying the neofunctionalist principle of spillover to natural gas markets, I examine the degree to which the EU has influenced Russian energy policy. I find there exists no visible change in domestic energy policy of Russia due to the implementation of competition rules in th