European Union regulators are preparing a strategy to import more liquefied natural gas (LNG) while scrutinizing Russia’s plans to expand its pipeline capacity to Germany, a draft EU document says. The document is part of the European Commission’s efforts to enforce a single energy market, based on regional cooperation and diverse sources of energy shared across the 28-member bloc. In a progress report later this month, Maros Sefcovic, European Commission vice president responsible for energy union, will deliver “a state of the union address”. A draft copy, seen by Reuters, says the Commission will early next year announce a strategy for LNG and gas storage to ensure the EU can benefit fully from its “diversification potential”. It will stress the importance of the fuel in negotiations with the United States on a trade treaty. At the same time, it referred to a shareholders’ agreement between Russian gas giant Gazprom […]