Agata Łoskot Strachota

„The lessons from Nord Stream 1 and 2 reveal that the history of our energy relations is full of controversy and taboo topics. We need a formula for talking about difficult issues, because they will always come up, as in the case of nuclear power,” Agata Łoskot-Strachota from the Center for Eastern Studies and Bruegel […]

Agata Łoskot-Strachota from the Centre for Eastern Studies writes about the consequences of applying the EU Gas Directive to the contentious Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. “One of the options Nord Stream 2 AG may choose is to divide the gas pipeline on paper into two parts: one section would run where the EU law […]

On 20 February, the Committee of Permanent Representatives of the EU Council (COREPER) endorsed a compromise version of the amendments to the gas directive which had been agreed a week earlier during the tripartite ‘trilogue’ meeting with the European Parliament & European Commission. This almost certainly guarantees that, after the last few formal steps are […]

Although the fate of the disputed Nord Stream 2 project is still at stake, the intra-EU dispute in this matter is influenced by Germany’s policy, which seems to be playing solo on the matter. On Friday, Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Russia. We are talking about it with Agata Łoskot-Strachota from the Centre for Eastern […]