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Avoiding Gas Panic: Why Europe Should Remain Calm About US Energy Supply – European Council on Foreign Relations

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Cover image: picture alliance/dpa | Stefan Sauer The United States has become one of the European Union’s most important suppliers of fossil fuels. According to statistics published by Bruegel, in 2021 the US share of gas supplies to the EU was less than 6%; by 2025 it had risen to over 26%. The situation is similar for crude oil. In 2025, the US ranked second, after Norway, as the most important supplier to the EU. Europe seeks new sources Foll…

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Read on Il Fatto Quotidiano.it: The Commission denies the alarm launched by two commissioners on the risk of replacing the dependence on Russian gas with that of the USA.

·Rome, Italy
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The EU Commission has in fact corrected the message issued by two of its representatives in recent days of warning about the risk for the EU of being dependent on imports...

·Milan, Italy
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The European Union does not see the risk of energy dependence on the United States due to increased imports of American liquefied natural gas (LNG).

The replacement of Russian gas with American LNG (liquefied natural gas), which began in 2022 following the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine, has by no means solved the Old Continent's energy problems. Instead, it has made the EU even more vulnerable and dependent on a geopolitical actor that is now more unpredictable than ever: the United States of America. This has created a new strategic dependence that further ties the EU to Washington's …

The decision of the European Union to replace Russian energy sources with American ones, in particular by increasing the purchase of liquefied gas from the United States, will not lead to the EU's dependence on the United States.

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Європейська правда broke the news in on Monday, February 2, 2026.
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