Chi Kong Chyong, Policy Brief, European Council on Foreign Relations, London 2014, pp. 12
This brief argues that in addition to the measures outlined in the newly adopted Energy Security Strategy (ESS) and in the 2030 framework for climate and energy policies, Europe should press Ukraine for full and strict reform of its energy and gas sector in particular, which is notorious for its corruption and inefficiency. This would allow Europe to Fulfill two important foreign and energy policy objectives. First, kit would integrate Ukraine into Europe’s single gas market and hence bring Ukraine to Europe. Second, it would heklp normalize gas relations with Russia. Rather than trying to isolate the Ukrainian economy from that of Russia, Europe should look at ways of diminishing Ukraine’s systemic vulnerabilities.
