Energy and environmental security of the European Union in the context of russia's unstable military and economic policy

Abstract

The countries of the European Union are experiencing the first real global energy crisis in history, bearing in mind that reliability and the possibility of receiving the required amount of energy resources are the basis of full functioning and further sustainable social and economic development of countries. The purpose of the study is to analyse European Union energy and environmental security regulatory measures in terms of unpredictable actions of the main supplier of energy resources. A set of general scientific and special methods of scientific cognition was used: the historical method with a systematic analysis of energy law; the structural and functional method; synthesis; deduction and induction. As a result of the conducted study, the main areas of increasing energy security in the European Union were determined based on scientific programmes using renewable energy sources, which gradually reduce the demand for organic fossil fuels (natural gas, oil, coal, peat, oil shale). The situation of dependence of EU states on the export of russian energy resources was also characterised and the process of changing the EU energy policy was illustrated. This research contains an analysis of the ecological aspect of the change in the situation with energy security in the EU, and forecasts regarding the situation on the international energy market of russia. The primary theoretical principles, conclusions, and practical recommendations in the industry of the energy market would help accelerate the diversification of the natural gas market in Ukraine in terms of joining the European Union energy market