At their EU Council meeting on Thursday 30 May, the European energy ministers took stock of the first two years of the REPowerEU strategy, which was designed to end Europe’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
“Today I was able to report to the EU Member States that the REPowerEUplan is working. We have reduced the share of gas imports from Russia from 45% to 15% in the last year”, the European Commissioner for Energy, Kadri...