Paper Titles & Abstracts

Being one the first European countries to liberalise its energy market and having an energy-corporate approach to energy security, German market opening eventuated in the easy access of foreign energy businesses into the country, including Russian giant Gazprom. The biggest part of its energy interests is close strategic relationship with Russia on both - state and corporate levels. Such cooperative approach to energy security and mutual dependence is viewed differently in Berlin and Brussels, triggering discontent and misconception among other EU MS for the last years. Apparently, unbearable climate protection targets for 2020, resistance for shale gas extraction in Germany, nuclear power ban, refusal to promote biofuel in a mass scale and commitments to economic efficiency in Germany tend to prevail over the fears of energy dependence on Russian gas. The paper aims to analyse how the German energy policies differ from the EU approach and what is the basis of their interest clash and different priorities in energy policies. The divergence of attitudes towards the diversification policies (Nord and South Stream) as well as deviations in understanding common energy market approach present an explanatory example.