... of affairs on the markets, the gas will go largely unclaimed. On the one hand, there is nowhere for the gas to be used. On the other, a number of these projects will simply not be profitable.
The construction of Nord Stream 2 would actually benefit Poland. The more Russian gas going to Germany, the greater the surplus of the raw material that can subsequently be traded on the spot market.
In order to support American gas producers, the U.S. authorities are trying to clear the market of competition for them, specifically targeting Gazprom’s ...
... opportunities resulting from such a hefty increase in defence spending. Poland's steadily increasing military potential is also important. It is obvious that the build up of potential capacity in these two countries could lead to a regional arms race. Russia's reaction to any changes in the potential capacity of Germany and Poland will also play a significant role. Such a reaction would hardly be positive, for obvious reasons, although Moscow's reciprocal measures might possibly prove asymmetrical.
Andrey Kortunov:
Hybrid Cooperation: A New Model for Russia-EU Relations
...
... providing tangible incentives and awards to governments ready to engage in bilateral agreements with Russia, and a strategy of intimidation and discrediting against those less willing to do so[4]. To conclude, I think that it is not fair to compare Germany, Lithuania and Poland and their respective perception of Russia, nor to draw lessons from the German case suggesting they should be applied by the other two. Germany, even though its Eastern part was also beyond the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, is objectively too strong and important to be mistreated by ...
On May 27, 2014 in Paris, Dr. Kortunov participated in the closed-door workshop “German, French Polish and Russian Opinions of Russia’s Foreign Policy” organized by the Committee on French-German Relations (
CEFRA
) and the French Institute for International Relations (
IFRI
).
Dr. Kortunov delivered a report on the political dimensions of energy ...
