Sweden in EU and NATO - A Strategic Balancing Act
  • Overview/Översikt
  • Sweden in EU and NATO - the blog
    • in English
    • OSSE-OSCE >
      • OSSE-nätverket >
        • Friends of OSCE
  • Podcasts
  • Background material
    • OVERVIEW EU AND SECURITY
    • Responses >
      • Crisis response
      • Geopolitics and power >
        • Enabling influence through assistance etc
        • Restrictive policies - sanctions
        • Values and interests
        • Soft power: perceptions and more
      • Institutional & legal >
        • Policy contexts >
          • Internal/External >
            • Domestic sources of foreign and security policy
            • European internal security
          • Intergovernmental/Community
        • Legal issues
        • Budgets and staff
        • Organisation and structures >
          • European Council
          • European Commission >
            • DG:s and other links in the EU Commission
          • HR/VP
          • EEAS
          • EU Delegations
          • European Parliament
    • Multilateral >
      • UN
      • Other formats >
        • G7/8 and G20
        • Council of Europe
      • Archive: Multilateral
    • Thematic >
      • Development >
        • STRATEGIES >
          • Strategies OLD >
            • Comprehensive-approach >
              • On political reporting
              • Root causes
              • Reviews
              • Technical suggestions
            • Strategy briefing Blog
            • Strategy briefings
            • Influencing resilience
            • Regime change
            • Military doctrines
            • Strategies old
            • Human security
            • Issue zoom out
        • Humanitarian assistance >
          • Humanitarian assistance explained
      • Governance
      • Other Thematic dimensions >
        • Freedom >
          • Freedom of the media
          • Democracy Southern Caucasus
          • Democracy in the Middle East
          • Religion and security
        • Gender
    • Flow security >
      • Positive flows: energy, internet, water, etc.
      • Negative flows >
        • Organized crime >
          • Trafficking >
            • Conflict minerals
            • Human trafficking
            • Drugs trafficking
            • Money laundering and financial crime
            • Boat refugees and trafficking
      • MATERIAL FLOWS >
        • Trade
        • Maritime security
        • Border management and security
      • Human >
        • Health security
        • Migration >
          • Migration daily update - twitter feeds
      • Virtual
    • Defence, conflicts and war >
      • Violence
      • CSDP and defence >
        • Forms of warfare
      • Crisis management - EU civilian and military missions >
        • Train and equip
      • Conflict prevention
    • Geographic >
      • Geography
      • EU(rope) >
        • EU Member States >
          • Germany and the EU
          • France
          • UK and the EU
          • Greece and the EU
          • Sweden and the EU
        • EU Neighbourhood policy >
          • Moldova
        • Turkey and the EU
        • Eastern partnership
        • Russia - Ukraine >
          • EU and Ukraine detailed follow up
          • EU actors in Ukraine and OSCE
        • Southern Caucasus >
          • Southern Caucasus explained in pictures
      • Global >
        • US-Russia
        • Russia-EU
        • Russia-China
        • China-EU
      • Western dimension >
        • US-EU >
          • US elections 2016
        • NATO >
          • EU and Nato
      • Northern dimension >
        • Arctic
      • Eastern dimension >
        • EU-Russia
      • Southern dimension >
        • Balkans >
          • Bosnia
        • Middle East >
          • Archive: Middle East and North Africa
          • Arab Spring?
          • Iran
          • Syria/Iraq
          • Israel-Palestine >
            • EU and Palestine
            • Israel - Palestine videos
          • Tunisia
          • Libya
          • Saudi Arabia
        • Africa >
          • DRC
          • Somalia and Sahel >
            • Mali
        • Asia >
          • Central Asia
          • Afghanistan
          • Pakistan
          • South China Sea
          • Korea
        • Latin America and Caribbean
        • States of Fragility
        • Regional
  • About/ om mig
    • Books, software and hardware
    • My affiliations >
      • KKRVA
      • SIPRI
      • Saferworld
      • Selected images from my past
    • Contact form
    • Store
  • Publications
    • Virtual library

Energy

⚡️ “Nordstream 2 - debate and perspectives”https://t.co/jHp1BBw5GR

— On security/Lundin (@londil) August 4, 2017
Tweets about #Energysecurity EU

Asia bourses powered up by rising oil prices https://t.co/0gPQe37eOO pic.twitter.com/T0fWrmHpkF

— On security/Lundin (@londil) May 16, 2017

Forecasts are difficult - in particular about the future...

#Oil prices fall on rising #OPEC crude production https://t.co/PklbiMP5bB

— Ville Kostian (@Kostian_V) May 2, 2016

In the next month do you expect the world oil price to ..

— On security/Lundin (@londil) January 20, 2016

So what did happen with the oil price?

Well,  most of us were very wrong. But it all depends on the time perspective  


Crude oil prices in a ten year, one year and three month perspective - completely different images 

Picture

EIA’s International #Energy Portal provides enhanced tools to examine global energy trends https://t.co/8l2jei7sME pic.twitter.com/gWC9FK6bJF

— EIA (@EIAgov) April 26, 2016

Sanctions Bite Massive Gas Project in Russian Arctic - WSJ http://t.co/6S5TcYYL9P

— On security/Lundin (@londil) August 28, 2015

" #US To Undermine #Russia’s #Gas Monopoly In #Europe" https://t.co/EYxgZiRGUN

— Ville Kostian (@Kostian_V) April 25, 2016
Picture

Join our event on #gas supply in EU | Register at https://t.co/PFkuem9s1c @ilzenagla @GasNaturally @EU_Commission pic.twitter.com/7v1xx6bC7z

— Bruegel (@Bruegel_org) January 7, 2016
Picture
Picture

Another expanding topic: from 6 references in the 2003 European security strategy to 39 references in THE EU Strategic Review. Key excerpts:

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture

#Norway overtaking #Russia as western Europe's top #gas supplier http://t.co/qCsnuqIaZG #EnergyUnion #EnergySecurity #Ukraine #Gazprom

— StollmeyerAlice (@StollmeyerEU) May 23, 2015

New on our blog: Will natural gas cooperation with Russia save the Greek economy? | http://t.co/QLD4S5Pmud pic.twitter.com/wXlLbiAn6k

— Bruegel (@Bruegel_org) April 19, 2015

The Commission’s energy union ‘strategy’: A rebranded work programme | CER http://t.co/3IiXlpuucl

— On security/Lundin (@londil) April 18, 2015

Iran Oil Production, Barrels/day 1974 - 6m Today - 2.8m 2016 - About 4m (if nuke deal is fully implemented)

— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) April 16, 2015

A very good piece by @CarnegieEndow colleague Carole Nakhle on the challenges and opportunities of Algerian shale gas http://t.co/K7vWT1DlCy

— David W. Livingston (@WolfLivingston) April 23, 2015

72 Countries plus the EU, Euratom and ECOWAS Adopt the International Energy Charter: http://t.co/ZsmMxNpFdq #EnergyCharter | #energysecurity

— Jarrod Washington (@JarrodWashingt1) May 21, 2015

Turkish Stream: #Griechenland und #Russland stehen vor Milliarden-Deal http://t.co/zaOArctGdh

— FAZ_NET komplett (@FAZ_NET) April 18, 2015
Picture
Look in the handbook!

EU energy security and dependence live Twitter feeds

Om säkerhet och samarbete i Europa, kärnvapenfrågor mm. On European security and cooperation, nuclear issues and more 
Kategoriserat - sökbart- Categorized - searchable
  • Overview/Översikt
  • Sweden in EU and NATO - the blog
    • in English
    • OSSE-OSCE >
      • OSSE-nätverket >
        • Friends of OSCE
  • Podcasts
  • Background material
    • OVERVIEW EU AND SECURITY
    • Responses >
      • Crisis response
      • Geopolitics and power >
        • Enabling influence through assistance etc
        • Restrictive policies - sanctions
        • Values and interests
        • Soft power: perceptions and more
      • Institutional & legal >
        • Policy contexts >
          • Internal/External >
            • Domestic sources of foreign and security policy
            • European internal security
          • Intergovernmental/Community
        • Legal issues
        • Budgets and staff
        • Organisation and structures >
          • European Council
          • European Commission >
            • DG:s and other links in the EU Commission
          • HR/VP
          • EEAS
          • EU Delegations
          • European Parliament
    • Multilateral >
      • UN
      • Other formats >
        • G7/8 and G20
        • Council of Europe
      • Archive: Multilateral
    • Thematic >
      • Development >
        • STRATEGIES >
          • Strategies OLD >
            • Comprehensive-approach >
              • On political reporting
              • Root causes
              • Reviews
              • Technical suggestions
            • Strategy briefing Blog
            • Strategy briefings
            • Influencing resilience
            • Regime change
            • Military doctrines
            • Strategies old
            • Human security
            • Issue zoom out
        • Humanitarian assistance >
          • Humanitarian assistance explained
      • Governance
      • Other Thematic dimensions >
        • Freedom >
          • Freedom of the media
          • Democracy Southern Caucasus
          • Democracy in the Middle East
          • Religion and security
        • Gender
    • Flow security >
      • Positive flows: energy, internet, water, etc.
      • Negative flows >
        • Organized crime >
          • Trafficking >
            • Conflict minerals
            • Human trafficking
            • Drugs trafficking
            • Money laundering and financial crime
            • Boat refugees and trafficking
      • MATERIAL FLOWS >
        • Trade
        • Maritime security
        • Border management and security
      • Human >
        • Health security
        • Migration >
          • Migration daily update - twitter feeds
      • Virtual
    • Defence, conflicts and war >
      • Violence
      • CSDP and defence >
        • Forms of warfare
      • Crisis management - EU civilian and military missions >
        • Train and equip
      • Conflict prevention
    • Geographic >
      • Geography
      • EU(rope) >
        • EU Member States >
          • Germany and the EU
          • France
          • UK and the EU
          • Greece and the EU
          • Sweden and the EU
        • EU Neighbourhood policy >
          • Moldova
        • Turkey and the EU
        • Eastern partnership
        • Russia - Ukraine >
          • EU and Ukraine detailed follow up
          • EU actors in Ukraine and OSCE
        • Southern Caucasus >
          • Southern Caucasus explained in pictures
      • Global >
        • US-Russia
        • Russia-EU
        • Russia-China
        • China-EU
      • Western dimension >
        • US-EU >
          • US elections 2016
        • NATO >
          • EU and Nato
      • Northern dimension >
        • Arctic
      • Eastern dimension >
        • EU-Russia
      • Southern dimension >
        • Balkans >
          • Bosnia
        • Middle East >
          • Archive: Middle East and North Africa
          • Arab Spring?
          • Iran
          • Syria/Iraq
          • Israel-Palestine >
            • EU and Palestine
            • Israel - Palestine videos
          • Tunisia
          • Libya
          • Saudi Arabia
        • Africa >
          • DRC
          • Somalia and Sahel >
            • Mali
        • Asia >
          • Central Asia
          • Afghanistan
          • Pakistan
          • South China Sea
          • Korea
        • Latin America and Caribbean
        • States of Fragility
        • Regional
  • About/ om mig
    • Books, software and hardware
    • My affiliations >
      • KKRVA
      • SIPRI
      • Saferworld
      • Selected images from my past
    • Contact form
    • Store
  • Publications
    • Virtual library