Gas security in Central and Eastern Europe: Connected, coordinated and consolidated

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Published: 26 April 2011
Central and Eastern European gas markets have long suffered from isolation and fragmentation, leaving them vulnerable to both supply disruptions and to monopoly pricing power. However, new research suggests that countries collectively negotiating with gas exporters could remedy this problem, argues economist and energy researcher Edward Hunter Christie.

This commentary was authored exclusively for EurActiv by Edward Hunter Christie, an economist and Research Partner with the Pan-Europe Institute at the Turku School of Economics (Finland).

"In a recent research report financed by the Austrian Ministry of Economy, 'Vulnerability and Bargaining Power in EU-Russia Gas Relations', I explore three topics that are of interest with respect to security of natural gas supply for Central and Eastern European states....more...
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