The EU’s energy chiefs have been on the road, visiting authoritarian states in the Caspian region and North Africa in the hunt for future gas supply contracts that would lessen the bloc’s current dependency on Russia. Sour relations with Moscow are pushing the EU to hunt for gas contracts far beyond Europe’s borders, yet most of those countries are unlikely to fill the bloc’s needs. Politico Europe spoke about the matter with Sijbren de Jong.
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