Ukraine's Energy Challenge
OP-ED
Dalibor Rohac: Ukraine must reform to free itself from dependence on Russian gas
Germany - and its chancellor Angela Merkel - deserve credit for the continuation of the EU's sanctions regime against Russia. But Germany happens also to be home to the energy giant E.ON, which recently signed a (non-binding) memorandum, together with Russia's Gazprom, Austria's OMV, and Shell from the UK and the Netherlands, agreeing to the extension of the Nord Stream pipeline, which brings Russian gas into the European Union.