Is joint EU gas purchasing really a bad idea?

Rather than going all the way to joint gas purchasing and strategic stocks, a European solidarity mechanism could be done quickly and relatively cheaply to address Europe’s current – and likely future – energy supply problems, argue Christian Egenhofer and Irina Kustova.

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As joint purchasing and strategic gas stocks raise many political, legal or practical questions, they will unfortunately not be able to help resolve our current crisis, write Christian Egenhofer and Irina Kustova. [manine99 / Shutterstock]

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Christian Egenhofer and Irina Kustova 11-10-2021 10:12 6 min. read Content type:

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