Escuela de Relaciones Internacionales

El presente proyecto de Investigación pretende describir las cuestiones inherentes a las relaciones entre la Unión Europea (UE) y la Federación de Rusia sobre los asuntos gasíferos. El trabajo trata del proyecto de gasoducto South Stream (el cual se basaba en la construcción de una tubería que hubiera transportado gas desde Rusia hacia Europa, atravesando el Mar Negro, ingresando por Rumania), y los debates generados en torno al mismo. Dicho plan ha sido muy controversial, principalmente respecto a la seguridad energética de la UE. Se ponen en juego los intereses de la Unión Europea y Rusia. El proyecto concluye afirmando que la UE y Rusia no tienen los mismos intereses en materia energética.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of Chancellor Angela Merkel in the main crises that the European Union (EU) has gone through in the period 2014-2020. Angela Merkel has been the Chancellor of Germany for 16 consecutive years. During this period, he has had to handle different problems within her country, as well as at the European level, an area in which she has had considerable influence, especially in the decision-making process. For this, we are going to take four central crises as case studies. The first case is the Ukrainian crisis, which began in 2014. It was unleashed after the events of the Euromaidan in Kyiv, the Russian annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbass. The second case is the Greek crisis, in 2015. The election of Alexis Tsipras as Greek prime minister, the unsustainability of the Greek debt interest payments, the economic deterioration of the country, but fundamentally the possible exit of the Hellenic country from the eurozone put the currency project at risk and demonstrated its limits just over a decade after its implementation. The third case is the so-called refugee crisis, which peaked in 2015, although the migration problem continued in subsequent years. Angela Merkel's leadership was key in leading the EU through the migration crisis. Finally, we find ourselves with the multidimensional crisis unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Germany's role was crucial in the negotiations to reach an agreement regarding the "Next Generation EU" economic stimulus package and the multiannual financial framework. To conclude, we ponder the central role that the German leader has played in managing these crises, and how she has performed in each of the cases analyzed.