US EditionEU will seek to cut US energy reliance after Trump’s Greenland threats
- The European Union is increasing its reliance on liquefied natural gas imported from the United States, according to Teresa Ribera, executive vice-president of the European Commission.
- Ribera emphasized the need to diversify energy supplies to avoid replacing one dependency with another.
- The EU plans to phase out all imports of Russian gas and LNG by late 2027, promoting greater diversification of energy supplies and local renewable resources, as stated by Dan Jørgensen, the EU Energy Commissioner.
- The United States supplied nearly 58 percent of the EU's LNG imports in 2025, a fourfold increase from 2021, according to data from the European Commission.
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Two days after the final decision on Russian gas imports into the European Union was taken, EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jörgensen expressed concern about a growing dependence on liquefied gas from the US. "We are looking for alternatives," said Jörgensen in front of journalists in Brussels on Wednesday and announced negotiations with Canada, Qatar and North African states. Last year, the EU had promised the US government massive LNG purchases. "W…
We will do everything we can to ensure that trade relations with the United States can be maintained, but it is clear that geopolitical turbulence like the Greenland crisis is a...
"We will do everything we can to ensure that trade relations with the United States can be maintained but it is clear that geopolitical turbulence" such as the crisis in Greenland "is a wake-up call. (ANSA)
After largely replacing its purchases of Russian gas with American liquefied natural gas (LNG), Brussels is now concerned that it has replaced "one dependency with another".
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