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March 23rd, 2022
We, European scientists, in the face of the brutal aggression of Vladimir Putin against an
independent country of Ukraine, appeal to the authorities of the European Union to immediately
impose an embargo on imports of coal, oil and natural gas from the Russian Federation.
Aware of economic and social consequences of imposing such an embargo on hydrocarbons, we
still think they do not constitute a sufficiently legitimate justification for the current passive
tolerance of the violence towards thousands of innocent victims and millions of refugees
displaced by this war. It is our moral duty to Ukraine, and to ourselves as Europeans who believe
in freedom and democracy, to sever all the economic ties with the aggressor until Ukrainians can
again live peacefully in their free country.
Maintaining and paying authoritarian Russia for deliveries of coal, oil and gas is a political
mistake. It gives to Putin the money he needs to prolong his war, which is unprecedented in
Europe since World War II and poses a threat to the European Union and to global security.
Therefore, we appeal for an immediate embargo on Russian fossil fuels.
As scientists, we declare a commitment to focused and intense scientific activities in our fields in
order to alleviate the adverse economic effects of a sharp reduction in imports of hydrocarbons
from imperialist Russia. Today, after decades of scientific research into climate change and
reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, we are ready to take that step more than ever before.
New methods of energy saving, diversification, storing and clean energy generation, developed
in many European scientific institutions to meet the goals of the Green Deal 2050 strategy are
ready. These efforts can and should be intensified, and the amount of investment into green
energy needs to be increased.
During the Covid-19 pandemic we saw the power of collective international community. Our free
societies endured the restrictions while the authorities of the European Union and its member
countries, together with scientists and industry took joint action aimed at unprecedentedly swift
invention, production and distribution of covid tests and a variety of a vaccines, thus saving
millions of human lives. We can do that again.
Today, witnessing Vladimir Putin’s war crimes, European nations are ready to take difficult
decisions. Let us take that momentous occasion and make that decision for the good of the
Ukrainian nation, for the good of the free democratic world and for the good of our planet.
To sign this letter please send your name, title, position and name of your institution to openletterforukraine@pm.me. Please include “I wish to sign the Open Letter for Ukraine” in the subject line.
Signatories affilated in Europe:
- Anne Abeillé, Professor, Université Paris Cité
- Alberto Alemanno, Professor, HEC - Paris & Director and co-Founder, The Good Lobby
- Stefan Ambec, Professor, Toulouse School of Economics & INRAE
- Monika Arczyńska, Ph.D., Adjunct professor, Gdańsk University of Technology
- Piotr Balcerowicz, Professor, University of Warsaw
- Karol Bandurski Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Poznan University of Technology
- Iuliia Barshadska, Dr. des., Consultant, Haus des Stiftens gGmbH
- Jens Bastian, Ph.D., Independent Financial Sector Analyst & Economic Consultant, Athens
- Ulrich Berger, Professor of Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business
- Ewa Bichta, Ph.D. Candidate, Univeristy of Warsaw & Junior researcher, Warsaw University of Technology
- Florian Bieber, Professor, Jean Monnet Chair, Center for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz
- Uilleam Blacker, Dr., Associate Professor in Comparative East European Culture, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL
- Anna Bogdan, Ph.D. D.Sc., Associate Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
- Igor Bogoslavskyi, Dr., guest lecturer, University of Bonn
- Eric Brousseau, Professor of Economics and Management, Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL
- Karsten Brüggemann, Prof. Dr., School of Humanities, Tallinn University
- Wojciech Bujalski, Ph.D. D.Sc., Associate Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
- Mihai Bujanca; Research Assistant; School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester
- Lieven Buysse, Professor, Campus Dean Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven
- Jerzy Chojnacki, Ph.D. Sc.Eng., Koszalin University of Technology
- Edward Hunter Christie, Senior Research Fellow, The Finnish Institute of International Affairs
- Cristiana Croitoru, Ph.D. Habil., Associate Professor, Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest
- Marek Czyński, Ph.D. D.Sc., Associate Professor, West Pomeranien Uniwesity of Technology in Szczecin
- Franziska Davies, Ph.D., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Jens Dietrichson, Ph.D., Senior Researcher, VIVE - The Danish Center for Social Science Research
- Andrea Ferrero, Professor of Economics, University of Oxford
- Andrea I. Frank, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Birmingham
- Kai Gehring, Dr., Professor for Political Economy and Sustainable Development, Department of Economics & Wyss Academy at the University of Bern
- Gerard Govers, Prof. Dr., Vice rector Science, Engineering and Technolog, KU Leuven
- Ellen Greaves, Dr., Research Associate, University of Bristol
- Sven Jaros, Ph.D., IOS Regensburg
- Artur Jerzy Filip, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
- Angelos Ginannakopoulos, DAAD-Professor, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy & Visiting Professor, University of Düsseldorf
- Josip Glaurdić, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Luxembourg
- Piotr Gołębiowski, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
- Nick Hacking, Ph.D, School of Social Sciences Cardiff University
- Beata Halicka, dr hab., Prof. UAM, Faculty of History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan
- Tomáš Halík. Prof. PhDr., Th.D., dr.h.c., Charles University Prague
- Olexiy Haran, Prof. Dr., Kyiv Mohyla Academy
- Krzysztof Herner, Chief specialist for digitization, Coal Mining Museum in Zabrze
- Jaap Hogeling, P.Eng., M.Sc., ASHRAE Director-At-Large, Editor-in-Chief of the REHVA-Journal
- Mieste Hotopp-Riecke, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Caucasica-, Tatarica- und Turkestan-Studies, Magdeburg
- Marc Ivaldi, Professor of Economics, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales - Toulouse School of Economics
- Asen Ivanov, Dr, Reader in Economics, Queen Mary University of London
- Oleksandra Ivashchenko, Ph.D., Medical Physicist, Leiden University Medical Center
- Artur Karczewski, Ph.D., Adiunkt, Gdańsk University of Technology
- Oleksandra Keudel, Ph.D., Kyiv School of Economics
- Diane P. Koenker, Professor of Russian and Soviet History, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
- Karol Jan Kowalski, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
- Marta Jenkala, Associate Professor, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
- Alex Krouglov, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University College London
- Markus Krzoska, Dr. hab., Privatdozent, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen
- Konrad Kucza-Kuczyński, Prof. Ph.D. D.Sc., Professor Emeritus, Warsaw University of Technology
- Jarek Kurnitski, Prof. Dr. Eng., Professor, Tallinn University of Technology
- Detlef Kurth, Prof. Dr.-Ing., Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
- Taras Kuzio, Professor, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy
- Kwieciński Krystian, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
- Håkan Lane, Research Group Scientific Methods, Brandenburg Medical School
- Viktoriia Lapa, Lecturer, Bocconi University, Milan & Assistant Professor of Law, Alfred Nobel University, Dnipro
- Annika Lindskog, Senior lecturer in Economics, School of Economics, Business and Law, University of Gothenburg
- Agnieszka Machowska, Ph.D. D.Sc., Assistant Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
- Myroslav Marynovych, Vice-Rector for University Mission, Ukrainian Cathoilic University (Lviv)
- Michał Marzantowicz, Ph.D. D.Sc., Associate Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
- Ora Matushansky, Dr. habil., Research director, French National Centre for Scientific Research
- Olaf Mertelsmann, Prof. Dr., University of Tartu
- Christian Methfessel, Ph.D., Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (München - Berlin)
- Caroline Mezger, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
- Hanna Michalak, Prof. Ph.D. D.Sc., Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
- Izabela Mironowicz, Professor, Gdańsk University of Technology
- Michal Mochtak, Ph.D., Visiting Researcher, University of Luxembourg
- Katarzyna Modrzejewska, Ph.D., Warsaw University of Technology
- Peter Münch, Prof, Dr. iur., ZHAW School of Management and Law, Winterthur
- Ivan M. Myhul, Ph.D., Professor, Ukrainian Free University, Munich
- Monika Neff, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
- Michael Neuman, Professor, University of Westminster
- Lucyna Nyka, Professor, Gdańsk University of Technology
- Mirosław Orzechowski, Ph.D. D.Sc., Associate Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
- Karolina Ostrowska-Wawryniuk, Ph.D. Candidate, Warsaw University of Technology
- Didier Paris, Professor, University of Lille
- Illia Pasichnichenko, Ph.D., Research Fellow, University of Bristol
- Lex Paulson, Lecturer in Advocacy and Human Rights, Sciences Po-Paris
- Paweł Pedrycz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
- Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Jacques Delors Energy Centre
- Andreas Petersen, Ph.D., Lecturer, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
- Hans-Christian Petersen, Prof. Dr., Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
- Łukasz Piątek, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
- Paweł Popielski, Ph.D. D.Sc., Associate Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
- Richard Portes, Professor of Economics, London Business School
- Karol Prałat, Ph.D. D.Sc., Associate Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
- Agnes Psikuta, Ph.D., Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
- Paula Quinon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
- Oliver Reisner, Professor, Ilia State University Tbilisi
- Mykola Riabchuk, the Honorary President of Ukrainian PEN Center & Senior Research Fellow, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
- Neil Robinson, Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick
- Christopher Roth, Professor of Economics and Management, University of Cologne
- Roman Ruczyński, Ph.D., Gdańsk University of Technology
- Per Anders Rudling, Associate Profossor, Lund University
- Sabine Rutar, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief/Senior Researcher, Leibniz-Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg
- Yuliya von Saal, Ph.D., Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (München - Berlin)
- Santiago Sanchez-Pages, Dr, Reader in Economics, King’s College London
- Robert Sekret, Prof. Dr. Eng., Professor, Czestochowa University of Technology
- Nikola Schmidt, Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of International Relations, Prague
- Jan Schnellenbach, Professor, Brandenburg University of Technology
- Robert Skrzypczyński, Ph.D. Candidate, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
- Melissa Sterry, Ph.D., Director, Bioratorium, United Kingdom
- Cyrill Stachniss, Prof. Dr., University of Bonn, Germany
- Krystyna Solarek, Prof. Ph.D. D.Sc., Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
- Marco Spampinato, Research fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Pisa
- Dzmitry Suslau, Dr, Lecturer, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
- Rafał Świercz, Ph.D. D.Sc., Associate Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
- Konrad Świrski, Prof. Ph.D. D.Sc., Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
- Maxim Tatarchenko, Ph.D., Research scientist, Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence
- Stefan Troebst, Prof. em. Dr., Leipzig University
- Hubert Trammer, member of the High Level Roundtable of the New European Bauhaus
- Joanna Tyrowicz, prof. dr hab., University of Warsaw
- Sergey Tyulenev, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Durham
- Bohdan Vitvitsky, Ph.D., J.D., independent scholar
- Andreas Wagner, Prof. Dipl.-Ing., Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Janusz Walo, Ph.D. D.Sc., Associate Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
- Rainer Wedde, Prof. Dr., Wiesbaden Business School Hochschule RheinMain
- Przemysław Wielowiejski, Ph.D., Copernicus Science Centre
- Leszek Wiśniewski, Ph.D. Candidate, Warsaw University of Technology
- Anna Wierzbicka, Ph.D. D.Sc., Associate Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
- Martina Winkler, Prof. Ph. D., Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
- Thomas Wortmann, Tenure-Track Professor, University of Stuttgart
- Alexander Wöll, Professor, University of Potsdam
- Kinga Zinowiec-Cieplik Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
- Jolanta Żak, Ph.D. D.Sc., Associate Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
- Magdalena Żmudzińska-Nowak, Ph.D. DSc., Professor, Silesian University of Technology
Signatories affiliated outside Europe:
- Denise de Alcantara Pereira, Associate Professor, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro
- David Amborski, Professor, Ryerson University
- Eduard Baidaus, Ph.D., HREC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta
- Jars Balan, Director, Kule Ukrainian Canadian Studies Centre, University of Alberta
- Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor, Brown University
- Fabian Baumann, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Chicago
- Dirk Bergemann, Douglass and Marion Campbell Professor of Economics, Yale University, New Haven
- Olga Bertelsen, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Tiffin University
- Larysa Bilous, Ph.D., University of Alberta
- Patrick A. Burr, Dr., Senior Lecturer in Nuclear Engineering, The University of New South Wales
- Walter Clemens, Dr., Associate, Harvard University & Professor Emeritus, Boston University
- John Connelly, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
- Elizabeth C. English, Ph.D., Professor, University of Waterloo
- Bohdan Hawryluk, Adj. Faculty Adjunct, New York University
- Michael P. Hrycak, J.D., Adj. Professor, Union County College, Cranford, New Jersey
- Elizabeth Hull, Professor, Rutgers University, New Jersey
- Margaret Ikeda, Associate Professor of Architecture, California College of the Arts
- Roger E. Kanet, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Miami & University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Juozas A. Kazlas, Ph.D., Political Analyst, New York
- Bohdan Klid, Research Associate, University of Alberta
- Olha Klymenko, Research Associate, University of Alberta
- Askold Lozynskyj, President Ukrainian Free University Foundation
- David R. Marples, Distinguished University Professor, University of Alberta
- Changho Moon, Professor Emeritus, Kunsan National University
- Alexander J. Motyl, Professor, Rutgers University-Newark
- Nasir Muhammad, Ph.D. Candidate, Florida International University, Miami
- Jan Musekamp, DAAD Visiting Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh
- Richard Parker, Prof., Senior Fellow and Lecturer, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- Łukasz Rachel, Ph.D., Princeton University
- Dani Rodrik, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School
- Steven Seegel, Professor, University of Texas at Austin
- Marko R. Stech, Director of CIUS Press and Scholarly Publications, University of Alberta
- Frank E. Sysyn, Ph.D., Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research, University of Alberta
- Yuriy Tarnawsky, Ph.D., Asst. Adj. Professor, Ret., Columbia University
- Madhu Thangavelu, Lecturer, University of Southern California
- Steven J. Zipperstein, Professor, Stanford University
Non-academic Supporters:
- Alexander Gendler, Chicago Jewish Cafe
- Rebecca Harms, former MEP, Energy and Climate Expert, Germany
- Oleksandra Matviichuk, human rights defender, head of Center for Civil Liberties, Kyiv