![]() ![]() These are currently very unevenly distributed in Europe with many in Spain, for example, but almost none in Germany or in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. To achieve this, we need in particular the infrastructure capable of receiving and processing LNG. On the diversification front, we need to increase our purchases of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from suppliers such as the US, Qatar, Norway, African producers and others. The three ways of cutting our dependence on Russia are diversification of supplies, energy efficiency and the acceleration of renewables. This plan has many important internal implications for the EU, but also for its external policy. “The three ways of cutting our dependence on Russia are diversification of supplies, energy efficiency and the acceleration of renewables.” In particular, we probably need to rethink our wholesale electricity pricing system, which is currently driven for all energy sources by gas prices, even though gas-fired power generation is a very small fraction of the whole. ![]() In parallel, the heads of states and governments will address the impact of rising energy prices on EU citizens and businesses at the next meeting of the European Council on 24-25 March. The Commission will present, by the end of March, a plan to secure our supply in the coming winter season and specify by the end of May the details for the REPower EU plan to end our dependency to fossil fuels imports from Russia. It is not possible for us to continue to feed Vladimir Putin's war machine through our energy imports. ![]() The heads of states and government agreed to phase out our dependence on Russian gas, oil and coal imports as soon as possible. The consequences of the war in Ukraine were at the centre of the informal EU leaders meeting in Versailles. ![]()
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