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2 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Gabriel Gavin |Victor Jack
Sept pays — la France, l’Allemagne, l’Italie, l’Autriche, la Hongrie, la Slovaquie et les Pays-Bas — ont mené la charge pour réduire les objectifs d’achat de gaz, en préconisant d’abaisser la cible de 90% de la capacité de stockage à 80% dans certaines circonstances. Ils estiment que l’objectif actuel contraint l’UE à acheter d’énormes volumes de gaz, dont une grande partie en provenance des Etats-Unis, à un moment où il est le plus cher.
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Gabriel Gavin |Victor Jack
BRUSSELS — The European Union is planning to slash natural gas purchase targets — even as U.S. President Donald Trump insists that buying more gas is the only way to end his trade war. On Tuesday, EU countries advanced plans to loosen mandatory goals for refilling storage facilities ahead of winter — a bid to pay less for supplies, four diplomats told POLITICO.
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Victor Jack |Lucia Mackenzie |Sam Clark
GULF OF FINLAND — Before Russia bulldozed its way into Ukraine, Ilja Iljin mainly hunted for people stranded at sea. Now, he also hunts saboteurs. Iljin, a deputy commander of Finland’s coast guard, is increasingly on the lookout for tankers about to commit sabotage. Behind him is a small army: dozens of radars and cameras, numerous patrol boats, a fleet of planes and helicopters — all deployed to scour a stretch of water as large as Belgium.
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4 weeks ago | 
politico.eu | Victor Jack
BRUSSELS — Washington and Moscow are in talks to revive the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday, as the Kremlin vies to regain a foothold in Europe amid the prospect of a ceasefire in Ukraine. The Nord Stream pipelines, which previously carried gas from Russia to Germany via pipelines under the Baltic Sea, were blown up in an apparent act of sabotage in late 2022.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Victor Jack
BRUSSELS — The European Union is discussing a new plan that would harness Ukraine’s mammoth underground gas storage capacity to resolve a long-standing feud between Kyiv and Slovakia, according to two officials familiar with the talks. The proposal, first discussed by European commissioners during a visit to Kyiv last month, aims to mollify Slovakia’s anger over lost energy revenue from the end of a gas transit deal between Ukraine and Russia in January.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Gabriel Gavin |Victor Jack
BRUSSELS — Any talk of returning to Russian oil and gas is premature and threatens Europe's security interests, European Union countries bordering Russia warned Monday as speculation grows that a United States-brokered peace deal could normalize economic ties with Moscow. The remarks come as speculation mounts over when — or if — Europe might reopen the energy taps with Russia.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Victor Jack
BRUSSELS — The European Union will propose next week to keep mandatory targets for refilling winter gas storage facilities, according to two European Commission officials, overriding pleas by countries like Germany to make the goals more flexible. The bloc first agreed to emergency rules on gas storage at the height of the 2022 energy crisis to allay fears of supply shortages following Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Victor Jack
BRUSSELS — Germany’s political system and social cohesion are at stake unless it restricts Chinese wind turbines in the country, a government-backed analysis seen by POLITICO warns. The report, which the German defense ministry commissioned, argues Beijing could purposefully delay projects, harvest sensitive data and remotely shut down turbines if given access to wind farms. It also advises the country to stop an existing wind project using Chinese turbines from going ahead.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Victor Jack
BRUSSELS — Climate-friendly lawmakers and countries accused the EU of betraying its green commitments after Brussels unveiled a new proposal to invest in overseas gas projects on Wednesday. The initiative came as part of the European Commission’s Action Plan for Affordable Energy, which aims to lower the soaring energy bills that have hampered manufacturers since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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1 month ago | 
subscriber.politicopro.com | Victor Jack
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