Introduction

When the Energy Ministers of EU countries met in Thesaloniki, Greece, in February 2003, Turkey and Greece signed an agreement to build a 350-kilometer gas pipeline to link the two countries. Once completed, the main will provide yet another, south-eastern route for gas supplies to Europe - an alternative to north-eastern itineraries from Russia and Central Asian CIS nations, including two pipelines already in place via Ukraine and Belarus and another one, yet on the drawing boards, across the Baltic Sea bed. Supplies of both network gas and liquefied gas to the European market from Norway, ...