Joint event with Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and Global Policy Institute

22nd November 2022

Watch the recorded livestream of this event here
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It was Russian President Putin’s hope that the West would acquiesce in the attack on Ukraine because of the dependency of leading European countries on energy supplies from Russia. So far this hope has been disappointed.

At this webinar we will review the differing energy situations among EU members and ask whether EU unity towards Russia can be maintained. We will also review the position of the UK on these issues.

How does the dependency on Russian energy differ among various European countries? Will the war in Ukraine lead to a re-orientation of energy policy? These will be among the questions addressed by our expert speakers.

Speakers:

Dr. Friedbert Pflüger
Head of the European Cluster for Climate, Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS), University of Bonn

Dr. Katja Yafimava
Senior Research Fellow on the Gas Research Programme of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

Pier Paolo Raimondi
Researcher, “Energy, climate and resources” programme, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)

Welcome by Matthias Barner, Director, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Office UK & Ireland

Chaired by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust

 

Speaker biographies:

Dr. Friedbert Pflüger

Head of the European Cluster for Climate, Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS) and Lecturer at the University of Bonn with focus on climate, energy and resource security; Former press spokesman for then German President Richard von Weizsäcker and member of the German Bundestag from 1990 to 2006. Foreign Policy Spokesman for CDU/CSU Parliament Group (2003-2005), Deputy Minister of Defense (2005-2006).

Dr Katja Yafimava
Senior Research Fellow on the Gas Research Programme of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. She holds a D.Phil. in Geography and an M.Phil. in Russian and East European Studies from Oxford University. She has been an expert at the UNECE Group of Experts on Gas since January 2015 and has authored and co-authored numerous books, chapters and articles on natural gas issues in Europe and Russia, including EU regulation in this area and transit security of Russian gas exports to Europe.

Pier Paolo Raimondi
Researcher in the “Energy, climate and resources” programme at IAI. His main research activity is related to energy geopolitics and geoeconomics in different geographical areas, mainly Europe, Africa, MENA region and former Soviet Union area. He is also Researcher at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM). He holds a Master in International Relations and a Bachelor degree in Political Science from the University of Milan.