ENERGY SECURITY POLICY OF EUROPE

Abstract

The current article attempts to discuss some topical issues related to energy security in the EU against the context of the gas crisis between Russia and Ukraine in 2009. In response to this potential and existential political challenge, Europe has embarked on a process of considering alternative non-Russian sources in their procurement of natural gas resources. Essentially, this process has exposed the Caspian Sea region and particularly the immense gas fields of Azerbaijan, as potentially viable sources. From this standpoint, the purpose of this paper to develop an integrated theoretical framework for energy security concept and to shed light on the policies and strategies applied by the European Union countries to confront the challenges that faces them. The outcomes and consequences of the crisis which were resulted in finding Azerbaijan as Europe’s new and alternative energy provider. Constructing energy union in EU might be the most important project in the history of the world.

Keywords

• european union
• energy security
• energy suppliers
• transit countries