The European Commission requires EU countries to abandon the purchase of gas in Russia by the end of 2027

16:55; 17 June 2025 year

The EU countries should completely abandon the purchase of Russian fuel by the end of 2027. This statement was made by European Commissioner for Energy Dan Jorgensen during the presentation of the EC proposal in Brussels.

"Our offer means that there will be no more Russian fuel on our market from the end of 2027. Short-term contracts will be banned from 2026, long-term contracts should end by the end of 2027," TASS quoted the European Commissioner as saying.

The EC recommends terminating long-term gas supply contracts with Russia on the basis of "force majeure" in order to avoid penalties.

According to Jorgensen, the EC will create appropriate mechanisms that will protect the ban from circumvention by EU countries. This will not be a foreign policy decision, but a trade norm that will allow the ban to be approved by a majority in the EU Council, depriving dissenting countries of the right to veto the vote. He also stressed that the ban on the purchase of gas from the Russian Federation will remain regardless of how the conflict in Ukraine ends.

"The less Russian gas there is on the European market, the freer and stronger we are," he concluded.

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