For Germany as well as for other industrial countries, an
undisturbed supply of crude oil and natural gas is of great
importance. Researchers of the Centre for European Economic
Research (ZEW) surveyed some 200 experts from the energy
industry in Germany who highlighted aspects perceived as
guaranteeing an undisturbed supply: long-existing supply
relationships with countries exporting crude oil and natural
gas, and a high degree of economic development within these
countries. A destabilising effect, however, is a high level of
corruption in the supplying country’s administration and
economy. This is the assessment of the current ZEW Energy Market
Barometer. Every six months, about 200 experts from the energy
industry are surveyed on current topics for the ZEW Energy
Market Barometer. 87 per cent of the surveyed experts consider
especially trustworthy those energy suppliers which are
maintaining long-existing supply relationships with industrial
countries. For 85 per cent of the surveyed experts, a nearly
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