FT: EU seeks alternative energy suppliers

When Guenther Oettinger, the EU’s commissioner for energy, warned last month that Russia might cut natural gas supplies to the continent in retaliation to western sanctions, he firmly placed energy security front and centre of the debate surrounding escalating tensions with Moscow.

“That [Russia’s President Vladimir] Putin would use false information, lies and weapons was beyond my imagination,” Mr Oettinger was widely reported to have said at a Brussels event. “That’s why I am not ruling out worst-case scenarios any more.”  MORE