{"id":47745,"date":"2025-04-24T22:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T22:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/47745\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T22:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T22:29:14","slug":"europe-faces-decisive-moment-in-energy-security-battle-von-der-leyen-warns-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/47745\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe faces \u2018decisive moment\u2019 in energy security battle, von der Leyen warns \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, POLITICO reported that the EU was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-to-float-ban-on-new-russian-energy-contracts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">considering a ban on new Russian fossil fuel contracts<\/a> as part of its long-awaited roadmap.<\/p>\n<p>The plan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-delays-russian-energy-exit-strategy-amid-geopolitical-turmoil-ukraine-peace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has been delayed for weeks amid geopolitical uncertainty<\/a> following U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s rapprochement with the Kremlin. Von der Leyen has, however, previously welcomed the suggestion of buying more American gas to help phase out Russian shipments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These energy partnerships, including imports of liquefied natural gas from the United States, remain of strategic importance for the European Union,&#8221; she added, while also crediting renewable power as having helped break Moscow&#8217;s stranglehold. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the risk of Russian sabotage and cyberattacks against energy infrastructure is growing, demanding more cross-border cooperation with countries like Britain. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are developing capabilities to protect critical undersea cables,&#8221; von der Leyen said. &#8220;We are open and ready to share our experiences and to cooperate on this with strategic partners.\u00a0&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this week, POLITICO reported that the EU was considering a ban on new Russian fossil fuel contracts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2437,6215,32,17790,35,25799,3057,3975,2000,299,5187,7159,5435,475,807,660,12270,2441,5436,26043,332,811,657,49,1220,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-47745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-companies","9":"tag-cooperation","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-ed-miliband","12":"tag-energy","13":"tag-energy-infrastructure","14":"tag-energy-markets","15":"tag-energy-security","16":"tag-eu","17":"tag-europe","18":"tag-european","19":"tag-fossil-fuels","20":"tag-gas","21":"tag-imports","22":"tag-keir-starmer","23":"tag-kremlin","24":"tag-liquefied-natural-gas","25":"tag-markets","26":"tag-natural-gas","27":"tag-new-commission","28":"tag-russia","29":"tag-security","30":"tag-ukraine","31":"tag-united-states","32":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","33":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114395307324382050","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}