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As part of Ifri Energy Breakfast Roundtable, a seminar with Vsevolod Chentsov, Deputy Head of Mission, Mission of Ukraine to the EU, Susanne Nies, Senior Research Fellow and Head, Ifri Brussels, Simon Pirani, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Energy Institute, Olivier Silla, Deputy Head of Unit, International Energy Relations, Enlargement, DG of Energy and Transport, European Commission.
Chairman: Jacques Lesourne, Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Ifri Energy Program. Moderator: William C. Ramsay, Senior Fellow, Director of the Ifri Energy Program.
Are we going to witness a new gas supply disruption this winter Which elements favor such a hypothesis, one year after the last crisis? What is the place of politics in Ukraine in the picture, the preparedness of EU member states? What would be the consequence of a crisis? And how to assess the perspectives of Ukraine's role in the transit picture, in light of pre-election politics, the economics crisis, and poor state of Russia-Ukrainian relations?
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