European leaders traveled to authoritarian countries Monday in search of new energy deals as Russia’s threats to cut off gas exports grow more extreme.
Leaders of the European Commission (EC), Italy and France rushed to ink energy agreements with counterparts in Azerbaijan, Algeria and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to offset the deficit in Russian gas imports, the Associated Press reported. The EC signed a deal Monday to increase gas imports from Azerbaijan from 8 to 12 billion cubic meters in the next year, reaching 20 billion by 2027, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement.
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