{"id":8510,"date":"2026-02-10T20:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T20:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/8510\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T20:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T20:45:20","slug":"eu-will-seek-to-cut-us-energy-reliance-after-trumps-greenland-threats-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/8510\/","title":{"rendered":"EU will seek to cut US energy reliance after Trump\u2019s Greenland threats \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. already supplies more than<\/a> a quarter of the EU’s gas, up from just 5 percent five years ago, with dependence set to rise further as a total ban on Russian gas takes effect. <\/p>\n

But J\u00f8rgensen said the Commission is now actively seeking alternative suppliers to the U.S. and plans to deepen energy ties with a range of countries in the coming months, including Canada, Qatar and Algeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cCanada for sure, Qatar, North African countries,\u201d he said, adding that Brussels is also working to secure non-Russian sources of nuclear fuel for member countries that still rely on Moscow.<\/p>\n

While stressing that Brussels does not want a trade war with Washington, J\u00f8rgensen acknowledged mounting concern inside the EU that it risks \u201creplacing one dependency with another\u201d after rapidly pivoting from Russian gas to U.S. LNG following Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has never been our policy to start trading less with the U.S., and we don\u2019t want trade conflicts,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it is also clear that geopolitical turmoil \u2026 has been a wake-up call. We have to be able to take care of ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

The commissioner said he had not yet spoken with his U.S. counterpart since Trump\u2019s remarks on Greenland, and said the EU has not set a formal threshold for how much U.S. LNG would be considered too much. For now, American gas remains \u201cessential\u201d to replace Russian supplies, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. already supplies more than a quarter of the EU’s gas, up from just 5 percent five…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[7023,227,7024,184,814,908,57,7025,929,2058,238,2276,240,4570,241,76,546,4583],"class_list":["post-8510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-algeria","tag-canada","tag-dan-jorgensen","tag-donald-trump","tag-energy","tag-fuels","tag-greenland","tag-liquefied-natural-gas","tag-lng","tag-qatar","tag-russia","tag-security","tag-trade","tag-trade-war","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}