Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy organises a panel discussion on Europe’s energy crisis

Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy organises a panel discussion on Europe’s energy crisis

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: The Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy (AGDA), the UAE’s leading diplomatic centre that trains and prepares current and future diplomats, on Tuesday 10th of January, organised a panel discussion on Europe’s current energy crisis, in coordination with the Embassy of Belgium in the UAE. The informative session was open to the public and welcomed more than 100 attendees from the general public, in addition to members of the diplomatic community, academics, and AGDA students and faculty.

Titled “The Geopolitics of Energy Security in Europe”, the event opened with welcome remarks by Professor Eric Canal, Dean of AGDA, and was followed by an engaging panel discussion, featuring His Excellency Antoine Delcourt, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium to the UAE, Dr Ebtesam Al-Ketbi, President of the Emirates Policy Center, and Dr Ahmed Rashad, Assistant Professor at AGDA, and a questions-and-answers session.

The session covered the European governments’ options for tackling the current high energy prices and the roles that the UAE and other Middle East countries could play as Europe reduces its dependence on Russian energy supplies. There was also a discussion around the G7 countries' price cap on Russian oil and how Moscow might cope with this move,