Baku-APA. The European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said Wednesday that European is working "very decisively" on reducing energy dependency, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
He made the remarks at a press conference after the EU-U.S. summit and called the Ukraine situation a "wake-up call" for the European energy security and that the EU needs to become less dependent from energy coming from "difficult spots," indicating Russia.
"About energy, of course, as President Obama just said, we in Europe have to solve some of our problems. We have been working on that. For instance, we have opened now a new gas route, the first time ever that we’ll have gas from the Eastern part of Europe not coming from Russia. It will be from Azerbaijan, the southern corridor. We have made progress in many carriers of the internal market, interconnections, reverse flows and so on and so forth. We are working on that," said Barroso.
Barroso said it will be good news that the United States put shale gas on world market, he called shale gas "blessing for the world" and also "blessing for the world."
Russia provides around one third of the EU's oil and gas and about 40 percent of that gas is shipped through Ukraine.
The EU has stepped up efforts to reduce its reliance on Russia for years and one possible way to do this is through Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership which is under discussion with the United States. Endi
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