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The European energy crisis and the future of the UK-EU relations in the field of energy and climate

Testimony before the European Affairs Committee at the House of Lords, UK Parliament.

Publishing date: 16 November 2022
Authors: Simone Tagliapietra

On 15 November 2022, Bruegel Senior fellow Simone Tagliapietra presented testimony before the European Affairs Committee of the House of Lords, UK Parliament on the European energy crisis and the UK-EU relations in the field of energy and climate.

After Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, European countries have taken important steps to ensure security of energy supply and help families and businesses tackle rising energy prices. Thanks to all these actions, Europe managed to put itself in a resilient position ahead of the winter, and for now defeated Putin’s energy blackmail. However, Europe is not out of the woods yet. To ensure Europe’s energy resilience, further action is required on both demand and supply sides. In this context, maintaining cross-border energy trade between the UK and the EU is of paramount importance for both.

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About the authors

Simone Tagliapietra

Simone Tagliapietra is a Senior fellow at Bruegel. He is also a Professor of EU Energy and Climate Policy at The Johns Hopkins University - School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Europe.

His research focuses on the EU climate and energy policy and on the political economy of global decarbonisation. With a record of numerous policy and scientific publications, also in leading journals such as Nature and Science, he is the author of Global Energy Fundamentals (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and co-author of The Macroeconomics of Decarbonisation (Cambridge University Press, 2024).

His columns and policy work are widely published and cited in leading international media such as the BBC, CNN, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Economist, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Corriere della Sera, Le Monde, El Pais, and several others.

Simone also is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Clean Air Task Force (CATF). He holds a PhD in Institutions and Policies from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Born in the Dolomites in 1988, he speaks Italian, English and French.