28 Sep
Powering the future: Charting Europe’s climate and energy sovereignty
Referring to it as “our answer to the call of history”, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen lauded the achievements of the European Green…
Experts & Staff
Szymon Kardaś
Senior Policy Fellow
Areas of expertise
EU’s energy and climate policy; Russia’s energy policy; Russia’s internal politics and foreign policy; international relations in Central and Eastern Europe
Languages
Polish, English, Russian
Biography
Szymon Kardaś is a senior policy fellow on energy within the European Power programme, based in ECFR’s Warsaw Office. His analysis will be focused on geopolitics of Europe’s new energy environment.
Between September 2012 and December 2022, Kardaś held the position of senior policy fellow at the Russian Department of the Centre for Eastern Studies in Warsaw (Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich – OSW). He is a graduate of the Institute of International Relations, Faculty of Journalism and Political Science, University of Warsaw and the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw. Kardaś gained his PhD in Political Science in April 2010 and is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Warsaw since 2010.
Own goal: How Russia’s gas war has backfired
When Russia drastically reduced gas supplies to Europe in 2022, European countries scrambled to find new suppliers. Paradoxically, the biggest victim of the Kremlin’s gas war seems to be Russia itself
A nuclear energy truce: Why EU states should stop bickering and build renewables
Passions on either side of the decades-long nuclear debate could slow the EU’s efforts to decarbonise its energy mix. Member states should respect one another’s positions and focus on building renewables as quickly as possible
Keeping the lights on: The EU’s energy relationships since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
The EU’s ‘friends in need’ have supported it through the energy crisis. The bloc must now balance buying more gas with helping supplier states develop clean energy.
Conscious uncoupling: Europeans’ Russian gas challenge in 2023
Europeans made remarkable progress in removing Russian gas from their energy mix in 2022. But 2023 brings with it a whole host of new challenges
EU Energy Deals Tracker
The energy deals the EU and its member states are now making with third countries will shape Europeans’ ability to protect their energy security in the long term. The EU Energy Deals Tracker provides a comprehensive overview of these agreements, including their implications for the sustainable transition.
Publications
Keeping the lights on: The EU’s energy relationships since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
The EU’s ‘friends in need’ have supported it through the energy crisis. The bloc must now balance buying more gas with helping supplier states develop clean energy.
Articles
Own goal: How Russia’s gas war has backfired
When Russia drastically reduced gas supplies to Europe in 2022, European countries scrambled to find new suppliers. Paradoxically, the biggest victim of the Kremlin’s gas war seems to be Russia itself
A nuclear energy truce: Why EU states should stop bickering and build renewables
Passions on either side of the decades-long nuclear debate could slow the EU’s efforts to decarbonise its energy mix. Member states should respect one another’s positions and focus on building renewables as quickly as possible
Conscious uncoupling: Europeans’ Russian gas challenge in 2023
Europeans made remarkable progress in removing Russian gas from their energy mix in 2022. But 2023 brings with it a whole host of new challenges
Specials
EU Energy Deals Tracker
The energy deals the EU and its member states are now making with third countries will shape Europeans’ ability to protect their energy security in the long term. The EU Energy Deals Tracker provides a comprehensive overview of these agreements, including their implications for the sustainable transition.
Events
28 Sep
Powering the future: Charting Europe’s climate and energy sovereignty
Referring to it as “our answer to the call of history”, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen lauded the achievements of the European Green…
In the media
Szymon Kardaś discusses energy security issues, the price of oil and its production
Putin has no strategic plan ‘B’ for the gas war with the West and allies. Russia’s successive initiatives are reactive moves. This is no longer strategic thinking.
Conversation by Szymon Kardasio of money.pl on how the loss of the European gas market is a problem for Russia
Putin’s energy blackmail accomplished nothing, we can feel that we are partially victorious in this fight
Szymon Kardaś explains gas price fluctuations and rearranges forecasts for the coming months
From the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, it was clear that it would be extremely difficult to reach consensus on an embargo on any gas supplies
Szymon Kardas’ analysis on the European LNG imports from Russia
Moscow has not succeeded in blackmailing EU member states by withholding gas
Szymon Kardas on the decoupling from Russian gas