Valdai Club

Elena Dunaeva

Piotr Dutkiewicz

Shen Dingli

Franck Düvell

Igor Delanoe

Mary Dejevsky

Dmitry Danilov

Thomas Daniel

Andrea Dessì

Ralf Dickel

Germany

Senior visiting research fellow at the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies, former Director of Transit and Trade at the Energy Charter (2004 – 2010)

Materials

Progress of Nord Stream 2 and Its Role for Russian Gas Exports to the EU

Opponents trying to prevent Nord Stream2, especially from Poland, often claim that the project has no economic rationale and it is mainly a politically motivated project; they try to portray Ukrainian transit as the better economic solution.

Cui bono? Danish Draft Bill to Subject Pipe Laying to Danish Foreign Policy

The Danish Cabinet recently discussed a draft bill amending the Danish Continental Shelf Act. This bill is to be submitted to the Danish Parliament for its new session starting in October 2017. At its core is a new provision, that a permission to lay pipelines can only be granted if compatible with Denmark’s foreign, security and defense political interests based on a recommendation of the Minister for Foreign Affairs.