Dan Jørgensen is making it his “main priority” to craft a plan that will finally sever all European Union energy links with Russia.
In his first interview since taking office as the EU’s new energy chief, Jørgensen warned that the EU is faltering in its multiyear campaign to shun Russian fuel and needed a plan to get things back on track.
He pointed to the EU’s rising purchases of Russian liquefied natural gas as a particular concern — and a reversal of the bloc’s downward trajectory. Additionally, five EU countries still rely on Russia for nuclear fuel.
“To have been able to bring down our dependency to such an extent that we have is actually quite an accomplishment,” Jørgensen said, speaking from his largely as-yet-unfurnished office in the European Commission’s Berlaymont headquarters.
