EU Commission to present plan of complete abandonment of Russian energy

The European Commission will soon present a plan for the EU’s complete abandonment of Russian fossil energy resources, spokesperson for climate action and energy, Anna-Kaisa Itkonen, said on Monday, January 20, 2025.

“The roadmap to wean the European Union off Russian fossil fuels is being crafted.

“It was announced as something that the Energy Commissioner will present within the first hundred days.

“There is still presence of Russian gas in the EU market, and this is something that we rather not see, and this is one of the issues that will be addressed in this roadmap.

“Roadmap framework for moving away from Russian fossil fuels that it will be presented in the coming weeks,’’ Itkonen told reporters.