Author: Yana Zabanova


Yana Zabanova is a Research Associate at the Research Institute for Sustainability - Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (RIFS Potsdam), where she focuses on the geopolitics of the global energy transformation, including its implications for the hydrocarbon-rich states in post-Soviet Eurasia, as well as on EU hydrogen policy. She is also a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen (NL).

The EU and Azerbaijan as Energy Partners: Short-Term Benefits, Uncertain Future

by Yana Zabanova

Azerbaijan has strengthened its energy ties with the EU since 2022, ramping up gas deliveries and articulating ambitions to export renewable energy and green hydrogen to Europe in the future. However, the EU’s shrinking gas demand and Azerbaijan’s lack of a genuine decarbonization strategy cast uncertainty on the long-term prospects of this partnership – all the more so given the EU’s persistent criticism of political repression and human rights violations in the South Caucasus republic. Yana Zabanova reports.

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