There has been talk for years about building a pipeline and the two possible routes that it could take. One of them would go north to Turkey which already has existing pipelines into the EU. The other option is you could go across the Med to Greece and then perhaps onward to Italy. It's not at all clear if that project is feasible. But some countries are already big exporters of liquefied natural gas.
The Economist’s comparison of Liz Truss’s staying power to that of a lettuce captured global imaginations. Will the next prime minister have a longer shelf-life? We ask why it has proven so tricky to get the Middle East’s considerable natural-gas resources to market. And the murder of Yurii Kerpatenko, a conductor from Kherson who refused to bow to Russian orders.
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