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US Push to Flood Balkans with American Gas Sparks Concerns in Brussels

Summary by Politico Europe
Increasing gas dependency in EU candidate countries could undermine the bloc’s climate goals, officials fear.

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Efforts by American energy companies to increase their influence in the Western Balkans are causing concern in the European Union that the region could become dependent on American fossil fuel, at a time when it wants to reach goals in the field of clean energy in order to integrate more into the EU, writes the Brussels portal Politiko.

·Belgrade, Serbia
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Plans by American energy companies to increase their presence in the Western Balkans market are raising concerns in the European Union over the risk that candidate countries could become dependent on American fossil fuels in the long term as they try to align their energy systems with the EU's climate goals.

The pressure from American energy companies to deepen their influence in the Western Balkans is fueling EU concerns that the region could become ...

Brussels warns that new LNG projects could make it more difficult to decarbonize the region and tie it to fossil fuels in the long term

·Podgorica, Montenegro
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U.S. energy companies are increasingly seeking to expand their presence in the Western Balkans, raising concerns in the European Union that countries seeking membership could tie to U.S. gas for the long term just as they try to switch to cleaner energy sources. Albania, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina have already shown...

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Politico Europe broke the news in Brussels, Belgium on Thursday, September 24, 2026.
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