On his arrival at the ‘Energy’ Council on Monday 16 March, the European Commissioner for Energy, Dan Jørgensen, who held talks with the Ukrainian side, assured them that the country was “working flat out” on the Druzhba pipeline, which was damaged by a Russian attack.
Since the incident, the flow of Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia – who benefit from a derogation from EU sanctions – has been hampered.
As Mr Jørgensen noted later in the day, during a ‘miscellaneous...