In a remote corner of Hungary close to the Ukrainian border engineers are starting work on construction of the biggest power station in the former communist states of south-east Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

EU-Ukraine energy relations are important for achieving many goals of the EU Green Paper on Energy, especially those related to energy security and efficiency.

This has been a cathartic year so far in the European gas market. It has seen at its very outset a high-profile disruption in supply between Russia and Ukraine.