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The Gas Game: Simulating Decision‐Making in the European Union's External Natural Gas Policy

“…This position – the criticism of trade with Russia as one‐sided dependency – is mainly taken by Eastern European countries, whose dependency on Russian gas is particularly high because of the pipeline infrastructure built in the former Soviet Union (Hirschhausen et al. : 11; Proedrou : 77‐78). On the other hand, certain member states – especially from Western Europe – relativize the dependency on Russia, since Russia also depends considerably on gas exports to the EU.…”