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Andrew Light Speaker Tour in Europe May 14, 2013 / Berlin, Germany; Brussels, BelgiumGMF Senior Fellow Andrew Light participated in a speaking tour in Europe to discuss opportunities for transatlantic cooperation on climate and energy policy in the second Obama administration.
In this podcast, GMF Vice President of Programs Ivan Vejvoda discusses last month's historic agreement to normalize relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
Anchor Elaine Reyes speaks with Andrew Small, Transatlantic Fellow of the Asia Program for the German Marshall Fund, about Beijing's potential role in brokering peace between Israel and Palestine
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Estonian Prime Minister calls for energy security cooperation across Northern Europe July 21, 2011 / Washington, DC
On July 21, the German Marshall Fund hosted Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip in Washington, DC, for a roundtable discussion on energy security. Ansip placed Estonia's experience with energy production into a larger Baltic/Nordic context, including with new and unconventional sources of energy.
Ansip spoke about the current state of Estonian energy production and its future path. He said Estonia’s economic security in a time of financial crisis and its efforts to diversify its energy production serve as a useful model for regional development. Estonian dominance in oil shale production, he added, also demonstrates the future potential for the development of this technology in the United States.
Ansip advocated for greater interconnection of gas and electricity networks across country borders in the Baltic and Nordic region in order to improve energy security and pricing. These interconnections are key to the planned development of nuclear power in the Baltic states, he said, since small countries like Estonia do not have sufficient domestic demand to support a nuclear power station. Ansip also described recent renewable energy developments, particularly in wind power due to its ability to diversify energy supply while providing industrial growth.
The off-the-record roundtable that followed included responses from Richard Morningstar, U.S. Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy; Andrea Lockwood, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Eurasia, Africa and the Middle East at the U.S. Dept. of Energy; and Keith C. Smith, former U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania and now Senior Associate with New European Democracies Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The event was moderated by GMF Visiting Fellow Miguel Rodrigues. S. Enders Wimbush, a GMF senior director, provided welcoming remarks.
On July 21, the German Marshall Fund hosted Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip in Washington, DC, for a roundtable discussion on energy security. Ansip placed Estonia's experience with energy production into a larger Baltic/Nordic context, including with new and unconventional sources of energy.
Ansip spoke about the current state of Estonian energy production and its future path. He said Estonia’s economic security in a time of financial crisis and its efforts to diversify its energy production serve as a useful model for regional development. Estonian dominance in oil shale production, he added, also demonstrates the future potential for the development of this technology in the United States.
Ansip advocated for greater interconnection of gas and electricity networks across country borders in the Baltic and Nordic region in order to improve energy security and pricing. These interconnections are key to the planned development of nuclear power in the Baltic states, he said, since small countries like Estonia do not have sufficient domestic demand to support a nuclear power station. Ansip also described recent renewable energy developments, particularly in wind power due to its ability to diversify energy supply while providing industrial growth.
The off-the-record roundtable that followed included responses from Richard Morningstar, U.S. Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy; Andrea Lockwood, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Eurasia, Africa and the Middle East at the U.S. Dept. of Energy; and Keith C. Smith, former U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania and now Senior Associate with New European Democracies Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The event was moderated by GMF Visiting Fellow Miguel Rodrigues. S. Enders Wimbush, a GMF senior director, provided welcoming remarks.
