The EU is finally saying goodbye to Russian gas with last night's agreement between EU countries and the EU Parliament. This is what the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said at a press conference on Wednesday morning.
Here she praises the EU Commissioner for Energy and Housing, Dan Jørgensen, for helping to secure the "historic" agreement.
- It is a new era, where we are finally saying goodbye to Russian gas, says Ursula von der Leyen.
She highlights that at the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the EU was paying 12 billion euros a month to Russia for fossil energy. This corresponds to around 89 billion kroner a month.
Or over 1000 billion kroner a year. That figure has now fallen to less than two billion euros per month.
This is because EU countries have currently - before the ban on Russian gas imports - managed to reduce the share of Russian gas in total imports from 45 percent at the start of the war in Ukraine to 13 percent today.
At the same time, the share of Russian coal has fallen from 51 percent to zero percent of imports today. According to von der Leyen, the share of Russian oil has been reduced from 26 percent to two percent today.
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