{"id":79292,"date":"2025-05-06T13:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T13:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/79292\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T13:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T13:55:08","slug":"eu-to-propose-blanket-ban-on-russian-gas-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/79292\/","title":{"rendered":"EU to propose blanket ban on Russian gas \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>As part of its plan, Brussels will propose reporting requirements on firms to detail the volume and duration of their Russian energy contracts and ask countries to offer plans this year to phase out Moscow-linked supplies. EU officials will also beef up an existing scheme that leverages the bloc\u2019s joint gas purchasing power to bring down prices.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission\u2019s plan also vows to \u201ccontinue its discussions with reliable suppliers,\u201d\u00a0most notably including the U.S., which wants the EU to buy more of its LNG. The two sides have yet to reach any deal, however.<\/p>\n<p>The document notes that 170 billion cubic meters of new LNG capacity are set to come online globally by 2027, making it easier to shun Russian supplies for other alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>In parallel, the EU executive will increase efforts to electrify its economy and consider expanding a platform for companies to jointly purchase supplies like biomethane, to replace supplies of traditional natural gas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nuclear is nigh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new plan also targets the bloc\u2019s lingering nuclear ties to Moscow, which <a href=\"https:\/\/euratom-supply.ec.europa.eu\/activities\/market-observatory_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supplies<\/a> a fifth of the EU\u2019s raw uranium and 38 percent of its enrichment capacity. Five countries \u2014 Finland, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic \u2014 still rely on Russian-built reactors.<\/p>\n<p>To break that dependency, Brussels will present a new legal bill next month making enriched uranium from Russia \u201ceconomically less viable\u201d through trade measures, the plan states, and separately restrict new contracts signed between the EU\u2019s uranium supply agency and Moscow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As part of its plan, Brussels will propose reporting requirements on firms to detail the volume and duration&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[13489,3854,2437,3032,38231,2814,32,35,6643,2000,299,5187,1699,769,39,5435,1195,2190,475,12270,5443,2441,5436,809,2661,15857,332,2663,2558,1201,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-79292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-bulgaria","9":"tag-coal","10":"tag-companies","11":"tag-czech-republic","12":"tag-dan-jorgensen","13":"tag-data","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-energy","16":"tag-energy-prices","17":"tag-eu","18":"tag-europe","19":"tag-european","20":"tag-european-union","21":"tag-finland","22":"tag-fuels","23":"tag-gas","24":"tag-growth","25":"tag-hungary","26":"tag-imports","27":"tag-liquefied-natural-gas","28":"tag-lng","29":"tag-markets","30":"tag-natural-gas","31":"tag-negotiations","32":"tag-oil","33":"tag-pipelines","34":"tag-russia","35":"tag-sanctions","36":"tag-slovakia","37":"tag-trade","38":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114461233929075241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79292","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=79292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}