EU's Plan to Gain Independence From Russian Energy Falters
Auditors said the bloc has committed just 18% of the funding needed, while renewable capacity and cross-border grid links remain far below targets.
- On Wednesday, the European Court of Auditors reported that the European Union's REPowerEU plan, launched four years ago to break dependence on Russian oil and gas, is falling well short of its ambitions.
- Brussels struggles to fund an integrated energy system, with auditors finding member states committed only €54.3 billion of the €300 billion available through the recovery fund, less than one-fifth of required investment.
- The ECA described renewable capacity gains as "negligible" compared with the Commission's 103GW goal, and flagged insufficient grid infrastructure and cross-border electricity connections as the plan's most striking weakness.
- While Russian gas imports fell from 152 billion to 36 billion cubic metres, auditors noted that mild winters and reduced consumption, rather than REPowerEU policies, largely drove the share drop from 45% to 12%.
- ECA auditor Mihails Kozlovs said the bloc must "learn the right lessons" to prevent future over-reliance on single suppliers, as geopolitical tensions and energy market impacts underscore the need to accelerate diversification.
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The EU Court of Auditors rejects the program launched in 2022 by Timmermans to free us from Russian gas and oil: member countries preferred to finance themselves on the markets. And on renewables worse still. The article Flop EU on the Energy: employed just 54 billion out of 300 comes from The Truth.
EADaily, September 10, 2026. Russian gas supplies to Europe have declined significantly since 2022, but this has little to do with EU and EU authorities, European auditors consider.
The EU has not done enough to break free from its dependence on Russian oil and gas, and has not invested enough in its own capacity and infrastructure across borders, according to the criticism from the European Court of Auditors.
Audit of the REpowerEU concludes that the plan is failing the objectives. European Court of Auditors leaves several recommendations
As a reminder, this plan had been endowed with 300 billion euros in 2022 to get out of the dependence on Russian gas by 2027.
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