The first session of negotiations between the Council of the EU and the European Parliament on the ‘REPowerEU’ regulation for a complete phase-out of Russian fossil gas was intended to get straight to the heart of the matter, by tackling the most sensitive points.
These concern the date of entry into force of the ban on all Russian gas contracts, the definitive ban on Russian oil imports, the prior authorisation mechanism for the entry of non-Russian LNG and the Parliament’s proposal...