2025-09-22 16:57
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2025-09-22 16:57
The European Commission argues that the decision to get faster from the import of oil and gas from Russia results from the market situation. “New LNG sources will appear on the market,” said EC spokeswoman Anna-Kaisa Itkonen.
Just two weeks ago, the EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen explained that the European Union maintains the date of withdrawal from the import of Russian oil and gas until the end of 2027.
In mid -September, after a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump, the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announced an initiative, aimed at faster resignation from the import of hydrocarbons from Russia to the EU.
On Monday in Brussels, the EC was asked if the decision of von der Leyen was due to pressure from the American administration? She did not confirm that these issues are related to each other.
– The proposal we presented in June (regarding the withdrawal of oil and gas from Russia until the end of 2027 – PAP), was based on the assessment carried out at the beginning of this year. (…) We had to realistically assess what we can implement to give market operators trading these raw materials enough time to find alternatives. A lot has changed (this year), and one of these changes is that new LNG sources will appear on the market. This will make the market even more fluid and better stocked in the coming months. And that's why we decided that now it would be possible to present this proposal (accelerating the departure from the import of gas and oil from Russia – PAP) – said Itkonen. She added that the EC always repeated that the sooner the withdrawal took place, the better.
The spokeswoman did not answer the question whether the Sanctions proposed by the EC at LNG from Russia would stop companies such as the French Total from selling liquefied gas from this country to countries outside the EU.
Cutting out in the new Sanctions Package, already 19.
The head of the European Commission announced on Friday that the proposal of the 19th Package of Sanctions against Russia was a ban on the import of Russian LNG to European markets. The complete withdrawal from the import of this raw material is to take place by January 1, 2027. In order for this to happen, the entire EU must agree, and therefore all 27 Member States. In the following weeks, talks on this topic will take place.
Itkonen said on Friday in Brussels that Russian LNG in Europe is buying Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Spain and Portugal, and Gas from Russia is supplied to Greece, Slovakia and Hungary with pipelines.
In June, the European Commission presented a proposal to gradually complete the import of gas and oil from Russia until the end of 2027.
US President Donald Trump announced in mid -September that he had sent a letter to all NATO countries and “around the world”, in which he declared that he was ready to impose strong sanctions on Russia, but if all alliance countries would cease to buy Russian oil. Hungary and Slovakia buy oil from Russia in the EU.
After a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump, the chairwoman of the European Commission announced the initiative aimed at faster resignation from oil and gas imports from Russia to the EU.
From Brussels Łukasz Osiński (PAP)
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