The article called "Battle Field of the Giants" about the natural gas markets of Europe was published as a cover story in the Lithuanian monthly business magazine Verslo klase (Business Class) October issue. In the five page article, Vija Pakalkaite extensively introduced the European Commission (EC) antitrust case against Russian gas company Gazprom and described the possible outcomes of the case. Besides that, discussed whether spot natural gas would necessarily be cheaper than the gas acquired via the pipelines on the long-term contract basis. She also discussed the possible birth of “new Qatar” –Poland – and its shale gas ambitions as well as possible EC attempts to regulate the European shale gas sector EU wide.
In the article, Vija Pakalkaite interviewed the head of the Central European University Department of Public Policy Andreas Goldthau as well as Vytautas Plunksnis, chairman of the Board of the Lithuanian Association of Investors.