Russia and Ukraine’s ongoing gas dispute shows how urgently the EU must improve its energy resilience by cutting fossil fuel imports, EU energy commissioner Miguel Arias Canete said Thursday. The EU’s main challenge is in natural gas, as 76% of the EU’s gas imports came from just Norway and Russia in 2016, Canete told an energy conference in Brussels. He said Russia would remain a key energy supplier for the EU in the short term. “What is important is to ensure that Russian energy supplies into Europe are subject to competitive pressures from the existence of other suppliers able to compete anywhere across our market,” Canete said. “This will ensure that the continued role of Russia as one of our main energy providers does not come at the expense of our energy security and resilience, nor does it lead to excessive prices,” he said. The European Commission has been […]