1、 2022 IAIISSN 2532-6570IAI COMMENTARIES 22|13-MARCH 20221Margherita Bianchi is Head of the Energy,Climate and Resources programme at the Istituto Affari Internazionali(IAI).Pier Paolo Raimondi is Research Fellow of the Energy,Climate and Resources Programme at IAI and PhD candidate at the Universit
2、Cattolica del Sacro Cuore,Milan.Putins war on Ukraine has shaken the European Union to its core.Implications will be long lasting in numerous domains,but it is in the security and energy dimensions that concrete changes are already becoming evident as the EU fast tracks its strategy for energy diver
3、sification.The Russian invasion has drastically changed the European energy paradigm,with the new political absolute being a fast reduction of Europes overdependence on Russian gas.Diversifying energy supplies away from Russia is a means to tighten the economic noose around Putin,seeking to deprive
4、the Kremlin of billions in energy revenue given that Russia continues to export oil,gas and coal to Europe at very high prices.For decades,the EU-Russia energy relationship expanded despite previous crises and political tensions.Warnings from some member states about Moscows use of energy flows to b
