A Trojan Horse From Russia to Germany?

A Trojan Horse From Russia to Germany?

By maintaining gas flows to “core EU states,” a number of Central and Eastern European countries fear that Russia will be able to more readily use its energy resources as a means to exert political pressure. As the CEO of Ukraine’s state oil firm Naftogaz commented this month, Nord Stream II is seen as a “Trojan Horse” rather than a commercial project that would not only damage Ukraine economically, but be used as “geopolitical blackmail.” Indeed, given Russia’s explicit commitment to utilise ‘great energy resources as an instrument of…internal and external policy’ in the Energy Strategy of 2003, as well as Russia’s track record of utilising this tool against Ukraine and the subsequent spill-over effect into the EU, such fears are not without foundation.

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