In a new strategy on Tuesday, a number of legislative proposals are promised for June to be able to phase out all imports of energy from Russia.
Today, we are sending a very strong signal to Russia. You will no longer be able to blackmail our member states. We will no longer indirectly fill up the Kremlin's war chest, says Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen at a press conference in Strasbourg.
Specifically, a ban on all new Russian gas contracts - both via pipeline and in liquid form - and a stop for all so-called spot contracts as early as the end of this year are promised. In addition, measures against the import of enriched uranium from Russia and further blows against the "shadow fleet" of ships from other countries that Russia uses to circumvent previous sanctions.
All EU countries will simultaneously be required to submit national plans on how they intend to phase out Russian energy.
Despite war and sanctions, individual EU countries have been able to continue importing Russian energy for billions of kronor each year.
"A scandal and a shame", writes Swedish EU parliamentarian Alice Bah Kuhnke in a statement.
