HOW DID THE GAS CONFLICT IN RUSSIA AND NEAR COUNTRIES AFFECTED EUROPE

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The conflict between Russia and Ukraine over the annual gas transactions and dealings has been mostly intermittent . This presents the gravity of the matter , alongside the fact that the conflict has mainly been seen to transcend the two parties so as to largely affect European countries that heavily rely on this gas . The negative effect of the war stems from the fact that the gas is clearly seen to be Russian and the transiting route for this gas is Ukraine

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lists of those countries that are hurting as a result of this state of affair are the actual EU member states and the potential EU member states . The situation at the moment continues to aggravate given the fact that these countries are in the verge of facing an acute disruption of oil supply , a situation that experts such as Adamski Johnson and Schweiss (2006 ) say is likely to culminate into a dearth in security in energy supply . This state of affair only means that European Union is to undergo a lot of repercussions and has a lot of vested interests in the ongoing discussions on the common energy policy

At the moment , it is true that the incumbent conflict has placed the issue of solidarity among the EU member states into the limelight Herein , there is a rush being made at a full throttle by EU nations to ensure a steady supply of gas individually so as to ward off cases of disruptions...