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  • How to create a single European electricity market - and subsidise renewables
    Policy brief by David Buchan, 26 April 2012
    Low-carbon energy
  • Launch of 'Green, safe, cheap: Where next for EU energy policy’
    Event, 27 October 2011, London
    Launch of 'Green, safe, cheap' with Charles Hendry MP
  • Green, safe, cheap: Where next for EU energy policy?
    Report by Katinka Barysch, Stephen Tindale, Christof van Agt, Václav Bartuška, Katinka Barysch, Jonathan Gaventa, Connie Hedegaard, Dieter Helm, Maïté Jauréguy-Naudin, Agata Łoskot-Strachota, Nick Mabey, Günther Oettinger, Pernille Schiellerup, Stephen Tindale, Frank Umbach, Georg Zachmann, 09 September 2011
    Green, safe, cheap: Where next for EU energy policy?
  • Shale gas and EU energy security
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 11 June 2010

    Will unconventional gas solve Europe’s energy security problem? Many EU member-states rely a lot on Russian gas; in the case of some Central and East European countries the dependence is total.
  • Should the Nabucco pipeline project be shelved?
    Policy brief by Katinka Barysch, 05 May 2010

    Nabucco - a pipeline to bring Caspian and perhaps Middle Eastern gas to Europe - is the flagship project of the EU's fledgling energy diplomacy. Nabucco would add to the EU's energy security, strengthen its neighbourhood policies and improve relations with Turkey.

  • How to build an EU energy market
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 18 February 2010

    Unbundling the supply of energy from its transport, moving Europe towards a low-carbon energy system, and getting the Nabucco pipeline built – these were the priorities of the last energy commissioner, Andris Piebalgs. His successor, Günther Oettinger, will write his own to-do list.
  • Pipeline politics: Why Nabucco is stuck
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 29 January 2010

    Last year, plans for the Nabucco pipeline – almost a decade in the making – appeared finally to make some headway. In March, the EU earmarked €200 million for preparatory work.
  • Gazprom’s uncertain outlook
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 18 December 2009

    Many people in the EU tend to see Gazprom as a mighty giant that uses energy as a political tool on behalf of the Kremlin. They say that Russia has leverage because it controls 40 per cent of the EU’s gas imports.
  • Making choices over China: EU-China co-operation on energy and climate
    Policy brief by Nick Mabey, 02 November 2009

    The EU needs China to move rapidly towards a low carbon economy. Even with strong leadership at the highest level in China, this will not be easy, given the country's scale, diversity and development needs.

  • Is Ukraine fit for the EU?
    Opinion piece by Tomas Valasek
    The Wall Street Journal, 24 August 2009

    The European Union just helped put together a consortium of international banks to offer Kiev up to $3.6 billion in loans to buy Russian gas.
  • Why can't Europe and Turkey get along
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    Time Europe, 02 April 2009

    Now that Turkey's local elections are out of the way, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is free to focus on economic and political reforms.