Dieter Helm

Dieter Helm is a fellow in economics at New College, Oxford. Among his recent publications are A New British Energy Policy (Social Market Foundation, November 2005).

Europe's energy future: in the dark

For most of its history, the European Union has got by without an energy policy. Energy, to the extent it has raised serious problems - as in the Opec years

By Dieter Helm

/ 16 Jan 2007

Russia, Germany and European energy policy

Energy policy has shot up the European political agenda in the last couple of years, as the realisation has dawned that the decades of cheap energy are over, and that

By Dieter Helm

/ 14 Dec 2006

Russia's energy policy: politics or economics?

Russia's combative "resource nationalism" is a reaction to the frontier capitalism of the 1990s. The west should look, learn and reform, says Dieter Helm. Western oil

By Dieter Helm

/ 16 Oct 2006

Russian gas, Ukraine and Europe's energy security

The gas-price dispute that erupted in early 2006 has sobering lessons for all the parties involved, says Dieter Helm. When Gazprom turned down the gas supply to the Ukraine in

By Dieter Helm

/ 20 Jan 2006

GM and the intensification of farming

Genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) have become, with nuclear power, one of the most contested and controversial subjects of environmental debate. On one side, the advantages of scientific progress, of helping to

By Dieter Helm

/ 10 Jun 2003