Europe’s New Energy Crisis

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent collapse in Russia’s energy exports to Europe have had considerable energy and economic impacts across Europe since 2022. The U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran and Iran’s partial closure of the Strait of Hormuz have further stressed Europe’s energy system, including the availability and price of natural gas at a time when European Union governments seek to phase out continuing imports of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG). As a result, gas storage levels are low as winter approaches. Will Europe have enough energy? Might Middle East exports resume? Can Europe follow through on plans to end LNG imports from Russia? What role could U.S. energy exports play? And what about Europe’s ongoing effort to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels?

On Thursday, November 19, the Center for the National Interest will host three highly qualified speakers to address these and other questions from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m.

—Andreas Goldthau is Director of the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt. His previous positions have included Research Group Lead on the Energy Transition in the Global South at the Research Institute for Sustainability – Helmholtz Center Potsdam (RIFS), academic posts at universities across Europe, and Marie Curie Senior Fellow with the Geopolitics of Energy Project at Harvard Kennedy School.

—Tatiana Mitrova is a Global Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. She was previously Executive Director of the Energy Institute at the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo and, before that, Head of Research in the Oil and Gas Department at the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

—Greg Priddy is Senior Fellow for the Middle East at the Center for the National Interest. In the past, he was Director of Global Oil at Eurasia Group and, earlier, a contractor for the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Paul Saunders, President of the Center for the National Interest, will moderate the discussion.