Poland’s Energy Union proposal: a fair deal for both the EU and Russia?
Article initially published in the Knowledge Centre Review (Summer Special Issue, 2014) of the Energy Charter Secretariat.
In April this year, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk published a column in the Financial Times calling for the creation of an Energy Union based on six pillars with thegoal of making energy more competitive and secure in the EU and its neighbourhood. Its most ambitious part would consist in setting up “a single European body charged with buying [Russian] gas.”