Energy crisis: EU policy response and potential implications for the European Green Deal

Abstract

The European energy system is in the midst of an unprecedented crisis. Russian gas supplies have been cut by more than 80 percent in the space of a few months, pushing gas and electricity prices to unsustainable levels. This event will outline the main responses deployed by both national governments and the EU to respond to the crisis, and will discuss possible short- and medium-term prospects, with a focus on the interface between the energy crisis and the European Green Deal.

Speaker

Giovanni Sgaravatti - Bruegel

Bio

Giovanni Sgaravatti works at Bruegel as a Research analyst. He studied Economics (BSc) at University of Venice - Ca’ Foscari - including one semester at the University of Melbourne, and holds a Master’s degree in Quantitative Economics obtained in Venice - having done the whole second year at the Economics School of Louvain.
Before joining Bruegel Giovanni worked in the Productivity branch of the Office for National Statistics in the United Kingdom. As a trainee he worked at the Delegation of the European Union to Chile and at BusinessEurope. His fields of analysis span from productivity to energy and climate change.