| NATO and European Energy Security
Garibaldi, Ida
American Enterprise Institute (AEI), European Outlook, Online edition, March 28, 2008, 6p
"Noticeably absent from the conference’s full agenda is a discussion of Europe’s growing dependence on foreign energy suppliers, especially Russia. The European Union (EU) now imports nearly 60 percent of its natural gas and more than 80 percent of its oil, and Russia is a significant supplier. The EU’s dependence on Russian energy is troublesome for a number of reasons, including the unreliability of Russia’s supply, the inaccessibility of the Russian market to European firms, and the political leverage a resurgent energy-rich Russia could employ in the future against the nations of the EU or their allies. The time is ripe for Washington to push NATO into a greater role in European energy security, and the Bucharest summit provides an opportunity to lay the groundwork for the development of a NATO policy that could be implemented in the coming years." Ida Garibaldi is a visiting research fellow at AEI.
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http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.27719/pub_detail.asp
F15/02-08, posted April 10, 2008
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