Ukrainian TANAP pipeline support

Every so often, and fairly frequently of late, the subject of Nord Stream II, (NSII, NS2, – however a reader may label it) and the Ukrainian GTS appears here.

The blog has long held the position that it is perhaps in the Ukrainian economic and national security interest to seek to swiftly and thoroughly integrate into the European gas network in order to be able to import as much EU gas market supply as possible – and after fulfilling the Stockholm Arbitration Court judgement returning to a policy position of not buying Russian gas (directly), while politically accepting that any Russian transit fees across its territory are transactional incomes around which no national budget nor oligarchical interests can continue to be built (as historically was once the case).

Bi-directional pipelines and interconnectors with the EU would seem the prudent path for the future, and is perhaps where transit fees revenues should be targeted to finance that goal.

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