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Dec 6, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Alan Riley |Mark Temnycky |Olga Khakova
Russia kicked off its winter assault on Ukrainian energy facilities with missile and drone strikes on November 16, damaging critical energy infrastructure when the country is struggling to accumulate enough gas for winter storage. Despite optimistic government claims that Ukraine is entering winter with “the highest possible level of readiness,” Ukraine’s energy system is at its most precarious state since the full-scale invasion.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
kyivindependent.com | Alan Riley
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has led to a resurgence in state predation against businesses, now approaching pre-EuroMaidan levels. This issue cannot be postponed until after the war. Politicized, predatory actions by law enforcement agencies against both domestic and foreign businesses pose a significant threat to Ukraine’s national security. State predation is not new in Ukraine.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
competitionlawinsight.com | Alan Riley
2024-01-08 00:00:00.0The underlying drivers for the enactment of the Sherman Act were not just economic. There was a broader recognition that the power of the trusts threatened both the political and economic liberty of all Americans. Equally the ordo-liberalist roots of European competition law sought to establish an economic constitution limiting the political influence as much as the economic power of large commercial entities.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Alan Riley
By 2023, over 60% of US liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports were heading to Europe. This seamlessly replaced Russian pipeline gas and kept the continent’s homes heated and its businesses running.
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
businessage.com | Alan Riley
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions requires wrestling with all three types of emissions, known as Scope 1, 2 and 3. Scope 1 covers emissions from sources that an organisation owns or controls directly: burning fuel in a fleet of non-electric vehicles, for instance. Scope 2 corresponds to emissions a company causes indirectly when the energy it buys and uses is produced, such as the electricity powering its offices.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
macemagazine.com | Alan Riley
The argument is often made about food, as well as about dozens of other “strategic goods”, that we must be self-sufficient in the face of threats to peace around the world. The argument itself is very old, old enough for the self-sufficiency argument, as well as the feasibility of actually being self-sufficient, to have finally graduated to the status of political myth. Yet this is, unfortunately, a myth that refuses to die.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
dialnet.unirioja.es | Alan Riley |Francis Ghiles |Francis Ghilès
ResumenThe Brexit vote is likely to empower these constituencies further undermining support for the EU and to fragment Union solidarity, opening up fissures that will be difficult to close. The EU has to find a means of keeping Britain, with its own significant resources, global reach and military power close to the Union. Britain was never that sympathetic to the European ideal and for decades, the British political class and media played an antiEU game.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
dialnet.unirioja.es | Alan Riley
ResumenThe Communist Party injects such dysfunctionalities into the Chinese economy and state system that China threatens both its own economic well being and security and that of the EU and US. The danger of Chinese economic policy amounting to ‘eating the future’ is underlined by the fact that in 2015 local and central government and corporate debt amounted to 283% of GDP.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
dialnet.unirioja.es | Alan Riley
ResumenThe last minute signing of the transit contract between Russia and Ukraine has led to a fall in European gas prices as markets reacted to news of the deal. The deal took place in the context of reforms in the Ukrainian energy sector which saw the unbundling of Naftogaz and the certification of the new transmission system operator by the Ukrainian authorities.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Peter Malcolm Dickinson |Alan Riley |Olivia Yanchik
On the very first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, a Russian warship approached the tiny Ukrainian garrison on Snake Island with an ultimatum: “Lay down your arms and surrender, or you will be bombed.” Although hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned, the handful of Ukrainian troops stationed on the Black Sea island had no intention of complying. “Russian warship, go f*** yourself,” they replied.
