EU-Gazprom Affair Sweetens

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“Despite 2014 and its aftermath, the two sides see an increasingly urgent need to get together and discuss how the relationship is going to be managed,” said Jonathan Stern, senior research fellow at the Natural Gas Research Programme of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. There’s a “definite thawing” as Gazprom prepares to complete new pipelines to the region."

The rulemakers in Brussels may need a refresher course in Maslow's pyramid, it seems. Need for heat trumps ideologies.