Europe’s energy crisis

Since late 2021, European households’ gas and electricity bills
have climbed to unprecedented levels. However, given the
uncertainty of future Russian gas supplies and several other
factors, the situation ahead does not look much rosier. How did
we get here? And what should Europe do to get out of this crisis,
in the short and long-term? Bruegel’s own Giuseppe Porcaro,
Simone Tagliapietra and Georg Zachmann discuss with Agata
Łoskot-Strachota, Senior Fellow of Energy Policy at the Centre
for Eastern Studies, Poland.



Read more:


McWilliams, B., Sgaravatti, G., Tagliapietra, S. and G.
Zachmann (2022) ‘Can Europe survive painlessly without Russian
gas?’, Bruegel Blog, 27 January

McWilliams, B., G. Sgaravatti, G. Zachmann (2021) ‘European
natural gas imports’, Bruegel Datasets, first published 29
October, updated regularly

Sgaravatti, G., S. Tagliapietra, G. Zachmann (2021) ‘National
policies to shield consumers from rising energy prices’, Bruegel
Datasets, first published 4 November, updated regularly