Stakes of European energy security amid the Ukrainian crisis

Abstract

 European energy security has received great attention from the decision-making and implementation department of the European Union, and this is due to the problem of energy scarcity of European political units and the consequent fragility in energy security as a result of dependence on suppliers, especially to Russia, which is the largest supplier of energy to Europe. Based on the foregoing, this study deals with the stakes of European energy security in the cumulative dynamic of the variables taking place in the region, especially with regard to the Russian war on Ukraine and the transformations that affected the nature of bilateral relations between Russia and the European Union and their impact on the continuity of energy supplies towards it. This led him to witness an energy security dilemma that resulted in a rise in consumer energy prices in parallel with an inflationary shock to the economies of the Union countries. This study was valued with results and proposals that, in their entirety, led to the necessity of redefining European energy security and in line with the definition of suppliers to it in order to reach energy governance that would contain this energy security dilemma and from there to its sustainability.