While supplies of liquefied natural gas from the US “remain of strategic importance for the European Union”, Ursula von der Leyen gave no indication that the EU executive planned to further ramp up imports, in a speech at a two-day summit on the future of energy security that opened in London on Thursday.
The Commission president noted how Russia had “intentionally weaponised” energy supplies while conflict in the Middle East threated global shipping. “And across the Atlantic, the threat of tariffs risk further disruption of crucial supply chains,” she added in a direct reference to the trade war launched by the US president.
