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Is europe ever going to go cold turkey on its addiction to russian fossilfuels? commissioner kadri simson, welcome to hardtalk. commissioner, would you accept that as we speak today, european union nations are still addicted to russian oil and gas? thats true that we are too dependent on imported russian fossil fuels. not only oil and gas but also coal and even nuclear fuel. and i called it an addiction, which implies dependency, thats fair, isnt it? there is a profound

At the ceremony. it was too dangerous for loved ones to join them. the newlyweds say they will have a party when ukraine is victorious. 0rla guerin, bbc news, kyiv. the european commission will later present to its parliament plans to try to rid the bloc of its dependency on russian gas and oil. the proposals will partly focus on moving towards what it calls "reliable" suppliers. the us is also looking for other sources of energy, and sent a delegation to venezuela at the weekend. there are fear...

I think we will have to continue to be vigilant for this, but i dont think it will be the last time we will be talking about putin attacking critical infrastructure during an dependency of this invasion. >> sean: given the choice of resending all of the onerous regulations that joe biden put on the energy sector given that choice including the keystone xl pipeline and the premier of alberta saying we could have 900,000 barrels of oil flowing from canada and a year if we start now, we could have ...

To see what they can do to increase supply. there is also, as i say, that is important. there is also the issue that emerati investments in uk when farms are already huge, what more can they do? we need to double the pace of our construction of one farms. we are already one of the biggest producers of offshore wind power in the world. when we look at the dependency that the west, in particular, has built up on putins hydrocarbons, on putin throwing gas, we can see what a mistake that was. i gues...

But also around the world. so, we have to dramatically reduce our dependency on gas and oil from russia — that will take time. washington is looking at countries that could ease the pressure, and theres a close neighbour sitting on a vast reserve. venezuela has more oil than any other country in the world — 303 billion barrels — equivalent to 18.2% of global oil reserves. the trump administration tried to topple mr maduros government by sanctioning venezuelan oil exports. mr maduro respond...

Has been looking at how reliant european nations are on russia for energy, and where they might find alternatives. gas is one of russias most strategic assets, but its becoming one of europes biggest headaches. as the war in ukraine forces an overhaul of our energy supply, there could also be consequences for climate change. we can actually use this as a huge wake—up call, which we desperately need, and say, right, this is the moment to break our addiction to fossil fuels altogether, to move t...

The ukrainian president has accused the german economy of appeasement, for not doing enough to disassociate itself from its purchases with russia. how would you address that? again, the european union is totally 100% without any question committed to support of ukraine. we are standing on the side of ukraine and ukrainian people and we are trying to follow this up with concrete actions both as a diplomatic level, we are working on international isolation of putin and we are working intensively o...

Written but we also have to think about vaccines in the easing of reflections. the most vulnerable are about to get up booster as part of the spring campaign for the over 75 is. if you look at other countries, places like denmark, they had a sharp rise in ba2 which has now come back down, so i think the anticipation is it will do the same but we have to monitor the figures closely. the war in ukraine has triggered questions about where our energy comes from, as europe tries to reduce its depende...

Equation here. so anything the u.s. can do two for their help europe, lean off its a dependency, is really critical. and thats the announcement that the president will be making on friday. >> tyler pager, thank you for joining us from brussels. especially its about four in the morning there. appreciate you. as we break down yet another day of the gop attacks. aimed at the first black woman nominated to the supreme court. and later, with more than three and a half million ukrainians on the move a...

My guest today is the eu commissioner for energy kadri simson. is europe ever going to go cold turkey on its addiction to russian fossilfuels? commissioner kadri simson, welcome to hardtalk. commissioner, would you accept that as we speak today, european union nations are still addicted to russian oil and gas? thats true that we are too dependent on imported russian fossil fuels. not only oil and gas but also coal and even nuclear fuel. and i called it an addiction, which implies dependency, tha...