Brussels, 30/12/2005 (Agence Europe) - The European Union does not want to get involved in the dispute about natural gas prices between Russia and the Ukraine in recent weeks, but it is indirectly involved because around a quarter of the natural gas consumed in the EU is imported from Russia, mostly via the Ukraine.
Eurogas, the European federation of EU gas industries, explains that natural gas accounts for 23.7% of final energy consumption in the EU, compared with 44.7% for oil and 19.4%...