On 26 June 2022, LCU consultant Rouven Stubbe has participated in an expert interview with the NGO Ukrainian Prism on the subject of “Ukraine’s place in the EU’s common energy policy: recipient of practices or initiative partner?”. Rouven Stubbe explained Ukraine’s short-term challenges in the upcoming heating season in the context of the war as well as the challenges and opportunities of a post-war green reconstruction for Ukraine. He highlighted the role of close EU-Ukrainian energy cooperation for jointly overcoming the European energy crisis and explained the synergies of decarbonisation and the new emerging European energy security paradigm increasingly based on domestic production of renewable energy.