ENERGY DIPLOMACY GIVES EU THE MEANS TO FORGE SECURE SUPPLIES, BUT IT IS NO SURE BET
August 1st, 2016
IN an ever more interconnected world, where reliable energy flows are of critical importance to sophisticated developed economies, the role of diplomacy in helping keep oil and gas flowing is perhaps more important than ever before.
Of course, oil and gas has always been an international business. Some countries have it. Some don’t. So trade is needed, necessitating infrastructure, contracts and technical harmonisation. But the geopolitics underpinning these trades is far less stable and predictable than the assessment of fossil fuel reserves and the capacity ...
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