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What’s the outlook on energy for Europe?
Analysis: a year on from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, volatility continues to be key theme shaping the energy landscape “It’s been an incredible year of volatility and uncertainty right across all energy markets. Unfortunately that is likely set to continue across 2023, even one year after the invasion,” says Dr Paul Deane, research fellow at the MaREI, the SFI Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine at UCC. “Even though we’ve moved away from using a lot of Russian gas over the last year, we’re still relying on the global supply of Russian gas and there hasn’t been any significant structural changes to global gas markets. So we’re essentially shopping…
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From Olafur Eliasson to Gerhard Richter: the art show aiming to unite Europe | Art
When it comes to outsized projects with geopolitical undertones, Walter Smerling has form. Between 2015 and 2017, the chairman of the Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur (Foundation for Art and Culture) in Bonn and a German art-world statesman of sorts organised the largest ever exhibitions of Chinese art in Germany and German art in China. And when tensions between western Europe and Russia started rising around the same time, he envisaged a continent-spanning exhibition: “A dialogue,” as he puts it, “about what unites people in Europe. About democracy, about solidarity, about personal and political freedom.” The result is Diversity United, a traveling group exhibition comprising over 150 artworks by around…
