“European Union and Ukraine: Energy Security Problems” roundtable participants stress the urgency of the problem that was discussed, as well as the constructive character of their discussion.

The participants state that there are complicated and pressing issues concerning organizing a stable communication of the EU countries’ growing needs in hydrocarbon energy carriers and in covering the existing deficit of electrical energy in some EU countries. In our opinion, these issues must be solved in the course of direct talks with all the interested sides: the countries consuming, producing, and transiting the respective resources. Only the policy aimed at taking into account the legal interests of all the energy market participants may be efficient and really common European.  Далі

The modern situation with the Europe’s energy supply is characterized by a constant complication of relations between the European Union and Russia. Correspondingly, transit countries begin to play a more and more important role in securing the reliability of Europeans’ supply with energy carriers.  Далі