The Italian Interests in the Caspian Area: An Overview
Article from: OGEL 4 (2009), in Eurasian Energy
Introduction
Italy has become one of the actors engaged in the struggle for the control of Caspian's resources that involves the most powerful nations interested to control and to exploit the big hydrocarbons reserves of this area. The Caspian oil and gas reserves are strategically important for the European Union in its policy of energy route diversification, motivated by the necessity to ensure European energy security. In this geostrategic context, Italy acts on two different levels: as one of the most significant EU member-states - through its own diplomacy - and, mostly, as the siege of ...