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Oil in SEE and Europe’s strategic transition: Between old dependencies and a future that is already changing Read More »

Oil in SEE and Europe’s strategic transition: Between old dependencies and a future that is already changing

Europe’s energy transformation is most visible in electricity markets and gas security strategies. But underneath those headline developments, another strategic system continues to shape economies, geopolitics and vulnerabilities: oil. Unlike gas, oil has not disappeared from Europe’s energy conversation. Unlike electricity, it cannot be redesigned via market rules into cleaner form. Oil remains physical, global, […]

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,

Gas in South-East Europe and Europe’s next strategic reality: Interdependence, exposure and the unfinished transition Read More »

Gas in South-East Europe and Europe’s next strategic reality: Interdependence, exposure and the unfinished transition

For two decades, Europe believed that liberalised gas markets, diversified suppliers and rules-based infrastructure would guarantee stability. That illusion collapsed with Russia’s war in Ukraine. What followed was the most dramatic gas restructuration seen in modern Europe: supply routes redrawn, LNG capacity rushed into existence, pipeline politics replaced by resilience politics, and gas transformed from

Europe’s new power market era meets SEE’s old vulnerabilities: Integration or marginalisation ahead Read More »

Europe’s new power market era meets SEE’s old vulnerabilities: Integration or marginalisation ahead

Europe is entering a completely new electricity era. Power markets are becoming faster, more precise and far more complex than anything seen in the last decade. Trading is shifting to 15-minute intervals, interconnectors are being treated as strategic security assets, capacity mechanisms are moving toward coordinated European frameworks, and renewable overproduction is becoming a structural

The Trans-Balkan Corridor: Infrastructure as the test of SEE’s electricity future Read More »

The Trans-Balkan Corridor: Infrastructure as the test of SEE’s electricity future

Infrastructure embodies intent. In South-East Europe, few projects illustrate that better than the Trans-Balkan Electricity Corridor. Beyond cables and substations, it represents an attempt to step out of the region’s chronic fragmentation and build a backbone capable of supporting a modern electricity economy. Its strategic value is straightforward: stronger transmission means stronger markets. With greater

EU deadline looms as SEE struggles to meet 70% cross-zonal capacity rule Read More »

EU deadline looms as SEE struggles to meet 70% cross-zonal capacity rule

Europe rarely enforces strict deadlines without deeper strategic intent. The requirement for European markets to make 70 percent of cross-zonal capacity available for trade by the end of 2025 is not an academic compliance exercise; it is an economic mechanism designed to reshape how electricity behaves across borders. For South-East Europe, meeting this rule is

SEE power markets still exposed to price spikes as cross-border integration lags Read More »

SEE power markets still exposed to price spikes as cross-border integration lags

South-East Europe remains one of the most structurally vulnerable electricity markets in Europe, not because it lacks generation potential or geography, but because of institutional latency, infrastructural bottlenecks and incomplete integration into the broader European market framework. Over the past decade, the region has repeatedly demonstrated a paradox: it is simultaneously a territory of opportunity

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,

SEE electricity market Week 51: Prices surge amid higher demand and renewables drop Read More »

SEE electricity market Week 51: Prices surge amid higher demand and renewables drop

During Week 51 of 2025, electricity prices across Southeast Europe (SEE) rose sharply, registering double-digit increases in all markets except Italy and Türkiye. The surge was attributed to higher electricity demand and slightly elevated TTF gas futures compared to the previous week. Most SEE markets posted daily prices above €100/MWh, except Türkiye, resulting in a

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