EUROSTAT MAKES CLEAR EUROPE’S DEPENDENCE ON RUSSIAN GAS
October 1st, 2007
THE DEPENDENCE of the European Union (EU) on gas from Russia has been made starkly clear by the latest detailed trade figures released by EU statistical agency Eurostat - 42% of imported natural gas came was Russian in 2005. This 4.9 million terajoules compared with 2.6 million terajoules (22%) from Norway; 2.2 million terajoules from Algeria (19%) and 1.9 million from other sources (17%). With natural gas and oil being the overwhelmingly large proportion of imports into the EU from Russia (non-energy trade being smaller than with Iceland), comparative national ...
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