Speakers
Visiting Professor at the College of Europe
Adjunct Professor of at the Centre for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law of the University of Eastern Finland
The Baltic region is making a significant progress in developing functioning regional natural gas market, expanding and integrating the related infrastructure, and ensuring the security of supply. However, there are multiple factors—at the national, regional, European and even global levels—that prevent this from becoming an ideal market capable of delivering greater security at a reasonable cost. Liquidity of the market is low due to falling consumption; state aid and state participation in energy enterprises disincentives private investments, diminish competition and distort market conditions, while geopolitical tensions between the West and Russia add further complications.
The report will be presented by its author, Andrei V. Belyi, Adjunct Professor of at the Centre for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law of the University of Eastern Finland (UEF), and will be commented by Alan Riley, Professor of Law at the City Law School, City University, London.
