The European Commission did not deny, on Thursday 31 August, the findings of a study by the NGO Global Witness, according to which European imports of Russian LNG gas have surged this year compared with 2021, bringing Russia a financial windfall of more than €5 billion for this part of the year alone. But it was keen to place this situation in a more general context of the European Union’s growing independence from Russian fossil fuels, in line with the objectives of the...