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SEE’s power trap: Why a region rich in energy still lives with unstable prices Read More »

SEE’s power trap: Why a region rich in energy still lives with unstable prices

South-East Europe remains a strange contradiction in Europe’s energy map. This is a region that has hydropower heritage, available renewable potential, strong interconnection corridors on paper, and strategic positioning between EU and non-EU systems. Yet it continues to live with some of the most volatile, politically sensitive and economically disruptive electricity pricing realities on the […]

Power and gas in South-East Europe: Europe’s new energy era meets the region’s old realities Read More »

Power and gas in South-East Europe: Europe’s new energy era meets the region’s old realities

Europe is rewriting its energy future. Electricity markets are being redesigned for precision, flexibility and integration. Gas politics have shifted from dependency illusion to hardened resilience. For many parts of the EU core, this transformation has already begun stabilising energy systems, restoring confidence and building the backbone of a decarbonising industrial continent. In South-East Europe,

China’s financial gravity in the energy transition: How state power, private capital and technology supply chains are redrawing the energy map of SEE Read More »

China’s financial gravity in the energy transition: How state power, private capital and technology supply chains are redrawing the energy map of SEE

For more than a decade, South-East Europe has lived inside two parallel financial realities. One is deeply European, built around EU funding architecture, the European Investment Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, accession-related instruments, green transition frameworks and layers of regulatory conditionality. The other has been built quietly, pragmatically and, at times, geopolitically,

The physics of balance: How nuclear energy reshapes renewable power in the regional grid Read More »

The physics of balance: How nuclear energy reshapes renewable power in the regional grid

Balancing in Southeast Europe today is an uneasy choreography. Hydro reservoirs rise and fall with unpredictable weather. Wind output swings quickly with pressure systems. Solar rises predictably in shape but not always in absolute production due to seasonal and meteorological variation. Coal provides inertia but increasingly struggles with emissions costs, regulatory tightening and aging infrastructure.

Region: Hungary’s MVM secures major LNG capacity at Croatia’s Krk terminal to mitigate Russian gas risks Read More »

Region: Hungary’s MVM secures major LNG capacity at Croatia’s Krk terminal to mitigate Russian gas risks

Hungary’s largest gas wholesaler, MVM, has revealed that it has reserved significant import capacity at Croatia’s LNG terminal on the island of Krk as a precaution against a potential cutoff of Russian gas supplies. The arrangement would allow the company to import up to one billion cubic meters of gas per year through the terminal

Region: JANAF and MOL explore major expansion of crude oil transport amid geopolitical shifts Read More »

Region: JANAF and MOL explore major expansion of crude oil transport amid geopolitical shifts

Discussions between Croatia’s oil pipeline operator JANAF and Hungary’s MOL Group have entered a new phase following a closed-door meeting last week in Budapest. Relations between the two companies have reportedly shifted noticeably, with MOL showing readiness for a substantial expansion of oil transport for the first time. The meeting focused on the potential to

The Balkan position: Regional export chains under CBAM Read More »

The Balkan position: Regional export chains under CBAM

The CBAM story is often framed as a national topic, but in reality it is regional. Southeastern Europe is economically intertwined, industrially interconnected and strategically positioned together relative to the European Union. Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece form a combined industrial corridor whose future competitiveness will be reshaped by

Power economics and the new industrial geography: Why Europe’s materials refining and processing are naturally outsourcing to Serbia Read More »

Power economics and the new industrial geography: Why Europe’s materials refining and processing are naturally outsourcing to Serbia

Power economics is now the decisive variable determining where Europe’s future materials refining and processing capacity will exist. Refining metals, manufacturing semi-fabricated products, processing battery materials, and managing advanced metallurgical chains are fundamentally energy operations. Electricity is not simply an input cost; it is the strategic determinant of competitiveness, investment confidence and long-term industrial anchoring.

Why European funds back SEE and Serbian mining juniors with downstream optionality Read More »

Why European funds back SEE and Serbian mining juniors with downstream optionality

As European capital returns to mining, it is not returning to the same industry logic. The traditional junior mining model — raise money on a discovery story, sell excitement, focus on the drill program, and treat downstream as “somebody else’s future problem” — is increasingly incompatible with the way European investors think today. Europe is

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