The President of the Commission reiterated the EU’s will to become independent of Russian mineral energy.
The European Union wants to “strengthen” its energy cooperation with the Jewish state in response to the “blackmail” of Russia, said today the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyenwhere visits Israel.
“The Kremlin has used our dependence on Russian fossil fuels to blackmail us.” denounced von der Leyen in a speech at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev in southern Israel.
“Since the beginning of the war (in Ukraine), Russia has deliberately cut off its gas supplies to Poland, Bulgaria and Finland, to Dutch and Danish companies in retaliation for our support for Ukraine.” underlined.
“The Kremlin’s behavior only succeeds in strengthening our will to free ourselves from our dependence on Russian mineral energy,” von der Leyen said.
“For example, we are currently exploring ways to strengthen our energy cooperation with Israel,” she said. submarine power cable project to connect Jewish state, Cyprus and Greeceas well as one “Pipeline” in the eastern Mediterranean.
Von der Layen met with them yesterday, Monday night Israeli Foreign and Energy Ministers Yair Lapid and Karin Elharar and is going to have conversations with him tonight Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
According to a spokesman for Minister Elharar, von der Leyen reiterated during their conversation yesterday that “the EU needs Israeli gas.”
“Announcements” regarding a energy cooperation “with Israel and other partners in the region” “In the coming days,” a European Commission spokeswoman said, adding that von der Leyen would be heading to Egypt after Israel.
The French Agency points out that Three major options are offered to Israel to export some of its gas to Europe: to channel its natural gas to Egypt, a neighboring country already connected by a pipeline to the Jewish state, which would then liquefy it and ship it to Europe; build a gas pipeline to Turkey, which connected, in turn, with the Old Continent; or to build a new hydrocarbon route directly to the south of Europe.
