EU, RUSSIA, UKRAINE MEET TO FORGE LONG-TERM AGREEMENT ON GAS SUPPLIES
July 1st, 2018
RUSSIA, the Ukraine and the European Union (EU) have agreed to negotiate to forge a long term trilateral deal on exporting Russian gas via Ukraine to the EU, with the goal of striking an agreement by the December 31, 2019, expiry of the current agreement. Russia and Ukraine energy ministers and EU energy union vice-president Maroš Šefčovič, meeting in Berlin, on July 17, agreed that a series of talks will be held, agreeing four priority topics that must be agreed in any settlement. This includes the EU's gas needs; how Ukraine’s adoption of EU energy laws ...
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