Europe-Russia : The Geopolitics of Gas

The Ukrainian crises and changing business conditions in the natural gas markets have taken their toll on the strategic partnership that Europe and Russia laid out in the early 2000s. The European Union is looking to increase its energy security while Moscow continues to search for new outlets. Marie-Claire Aoun, Director of the Energy Center at Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI), a leading French think tank on international issues, talked with Planète Énergies about the challenges created by this interdependence, which remains a key factor in Europe’s energy balanceThe energy balance of an operation or process is the ratio between the energy available at the end of the operation and....