Firm friends: The EU and Algeria enjoy gas love-in

摘要

Algeria’s importance to the European gas landscape is often overlooked, which is not surprising given the sometimes hysterical attention paid to Europe’s much bigger gas supplier to the east. But Brussels is under no illusion that the EU’s gas exporters should, where possible, become strategic partners and that those relationships have to be managed and worked on. Algeria needs friends too. Investments in its energy sector have been few and far between in recent years and the collapse in commodity prices has hit it hard.