Fair Observer: Europe Should Look Beyond Ukraine’s Short-Term Gas Supply

The European Union looks to strengthen Ukraine’s energy security, but Brussels forgets to put its house in order first.

On July 15, when the European Commission’s Maros Sefcovic met with representatives of ENGIE, OMV and Europe’s other gas companies, all eyes were on Ukraine. The meeting to discuss the country’s gas supplies and storage capacities comes on the heels of June’s discussions in Vienna, which failed to produce any agreement on natural gas prices between Moscow and Kiev.

The meeting underscores the wider economic and political disputes that involve Europe’s access to energy markets, transnational pipelines and its own historic but ever-evolving dependence on Russia’s extensive oil and gas resources—well beyond the disputed borders of Ukraine.

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