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Europe’s Looming Energy Disaster
With winter fast approaching, the absence of common guidelines for national energy policies should be regarded as an economic emergency.
- Publishing date
- 01 November 2022
- Authors
- Jean Pisani-Ferry
- Publication name
- Project Syndicate
- Publication date
- 01 November 2022
- Keyword
- eu governance energy
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- English
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