European energy security and the role of LNG

The purpose of this work is to explain how energy security is perceived within the European Union and how liquified natural gas, in short LNG, supports it from legal aspect. This work states the place of energy in modern world by evaluating Europe's understanding of energy security concept under the scope of natural gas and especially LNG. The essentialness of energy security is discussed from a legal point of view. The aforesaid concept can only be understood by legal reactions and regulations and case studies are used as examples to support the analysis of Europe's energy security perception. Along with the legal development of energy security, technological development is also studied and LNG is discussed within the meaning of its reinforcement for the concept. Eventually, economy does not exist without energy; likewise energy does not exist without law.