Mon, 20 Oct 2025

 

Europe aims to end reliance on Russian gas by 2027.
 
By: Abara Blessing Oluchi
Mon, 20 Oct 2025   ||   Nigeria,
 

Energy ministers from across the EU met on Monday in Luxembourg to agree on the details of a comprehensive law that would permanently end the bloc’s use of Russian gas, more than three years after Vladimir Putin’s full invasion of Ukraine triggered the energy breakup.

The ban starts with a prohibition on short-term Russian gas contracts starting mid-June, though Hungary and Slovakia, two landlocked countries with no alternatives, will be exempt for now.

That exemption doesn’t extend far; long-term contracts will be banned too, just 18 months later. The law only needs support from a qualified majority of member states, meaning it can still pass even if Hungary or Slovakia votes against it.

 

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