Decryption – The commission has a roadmap to end the short -term import contracts this year. The strategy also targets Russian oil and uranium.
Europeans paid 22 billion euros in Russia for gas and oil purchases between February 2024 and February 2025, according to the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air, a Finnish organization. “” We have spent more in Russian hydrocarbons since February 2022 than for Help provided to Ukrainedeplores the European Energy Commissioner, Dan Jorgensen. It must stop. »
A significant reduction in Russian energy imports has certainly already taken place since the start of the war in Ukraine. Russian gas should no longer represent only 13 % of the total imported by the European Union this year, against 45 % in 2021. But, after this initial decrease, imports increased in 2024. France even became the first importer of Russian liquefied natural gas (GNL), whose deliveries jumped 80 % in 2024 compared to the previous year, and represent a third of its purchases.
To put an end to this unhealthy dependence, the Commission …
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