Valdai Club

Instead of an energy dialogue, EU and Russia have two energy monologues. Europe is afraid of serious conversations, but we need to talk and get our message across. There is still space to negotiate, but it is shrinking.

On April 13, the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club held a conference in Berlin, entitled "Europe and Eurasia: moving toward a new energy security model". More than 150 experts discussed the radical changes unfolding in world politics and global energy markets in the 21st century.

Energy business under the conditions of political and economic uncertainties. Be sure that the map of future pipelines and their direction of flow will largely be determined by the complex war, and that there will be major losers as well as gainers.

As a non-EU country, Turkey is not obliged to obey the EU competition law that made the realization of the South Stream project impossible. Accordingly the South Stream project has been redirected by Russia towards Turkey so as to end at the border to Europe.

Sino-Russian energy cooperation in the wake of 2014 is developing with great breakthroughs. This historic progress is without doubt of great significance.

Europe’s energy landscape has always been scenery for a fierce though hidden competition between the Member States and Brussels for influence over the energy sector.