Putin outsmarted as EU poised to slash dependency on Russian gas

Barbara Pompili, French Minister for the ecological transition, said: “Next winter, the member states and the Commission will step up their coordination to reinforce our capacity for importing LNG for instance.

“We will have to use our terminals as best we can, we have to fill those terminals, we have to increase our stocks.

“And we have to have more trade with exporting producer countries.”

The EU’s Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson, while agreeing that the current enery situation is “tense”, has claimed the EU will be able to get through the winter even if Russia slashes all its supplies.

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