In recent years, the name of the Germany-based company SEFE, Securing Energy for Europe, has been heard increasingly often. The reasons behind this visibility are open to serious debate. Its more frequent appearance through natural gas agreements with Azerbaijan and Tรผrkiye is not coincidental. This rise in visibility is a direct result of the structural transformation taking place in the European energy market and Germanyโs energy security strategy. The steps taken by SEFE should be understood not only as commercial agreements but also as geopolitical and strategic repositioning efforts.
Following the Russia-Ukraine war, Europeโs decision to rapidly reduce its dependence on Russian gas forced Germany to fundamentally restructure its energy supply chain. What stands out in this process is that the former Gazprom Germania, taken under state control and restructured under the name SEFE, became less a conventional commercial company and more a strategic instrument for ensuring Germanyโs energy supply security.
Public debate has repeatedly raised a central
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