Bourgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline; will matching institutional and regulatory contexts lead to an effective bargaining and eventual consensus?

►The B-A oil pipeline project is currently at a junction point. Bargaining and public discussion is ongoing. ►Muthoo's principles/prerequisites for an effective bargaining result, through their constituents (selected economy, energy, socio-demographic and E-governance figures and characteristics as well as environmental effects and construction characteristics of the pipeline), are fulfilled by Greece and Bulgaria. Therefore the two countries match in all parameters and remains pending the last but not least point of agreement, namely citizens' consensus. ►A broader coalition with the inclusion of Turkey might also be permissible and promising based on this theory. EU accession is bound to increase Turkish institutional compatibility with Greece and Bulgaria and boost energy co-operations favored by the geographical proximity of the three countries.