Building New Gas Transportation Infrastructure in the EU – what are the rules of the game?
Researching and writing this paper has been a challenge on many fronts – the complexity of the subject of EU regulation, its rapidly evolving nature, and its ongoing politicization, particularly as far as Russian gas pipelines are concerned. I was privileged to count on support and advice from Professor Jonathan Stern, a Distinguished Research Fellow on the OIES Natural Gas Research Programme, to whom I am extremely grateful for the time he spent on reading and commenting on this (very long) paper. I also thank everyone else who has lent their time and expertise in various ways. Special thanks go to Catherine Riches for her excellent editing which made this paper significantly more readable. I also thank Kate Teasdale for her administrative support. Responsibility for all the views expressed and all the conclusions reached is solely mine.