The EC said it would soon present a plan to divest from Russia's energy resources
The European Commission (EC) will soon present a plan for the complete withdrawal of the European Union (EU) from Russian fossil energy resources. This was announced by the EC spokesperson Anna-Kaisa Itkonen on January 20.
"The EC is working on a roadmap for the EU's complete rejection of Russian fossil energy resources," she said at a press conference in Brussels, the recording of which is published on the European Commission's website.
According to her, the European Commissioner for Energy promised to present the plan in the first 100 days of work of the new EC.
In addition, Itkonen claims that the European Union is conducting successful actions to abandon Russia's energy resources. According to her, the Europeans have given up coal, the majority of oil supplies, as well as 2/3 of gas from Russia.
The representative of the European Commission noted that at the same time there is still Russian gas on the European market.
On the eve of the vice-speaker of the Slovak Parliament Tibor Gašpar said that due to the decision of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (term of office expired on May 20, 2024) to stop the supply of Russian gas through the Ukrainian territory, the EU may suffer damage to the amount of €70 billion. According to him, Slovakia will respond to such actions of the head of the Kiev regime by reducing or stopping humanitarian aid.
At the end of August 2024, Zelensky said that the country would not extend the gas transit agreement with Russia, which expired at the end of 2024. Russian President Vladimir Putin later indicated that Moscow was not giving up gas transit through Ukraine.
On January 1, 2025, Gazprom said it would suspend gas supplies through Ukraine. On the same day, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fitzo said that this would have drastic consequences for the EU, but not for Russia.
