00:00Nearly four years after Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, EU leaders have finalized
00:06a ban on natural gas imports from Russia.
00:10It aims at ending dependency on Russian energy through achieving a resilient EU energy market
00:17and preserving the EU security of supply.
00:21Russia supplied more than 40 percent of the EU's gas before 2022, a share that dropped
00:26to around 13 percent last year.
00:29But the total ban by late 2027 still saw opposition from Hungary and Slovakia, who remain reliant
00:36on Russian energy.
00:38For Slovakia, this timeline raises serious questions regarding security of supply, economic
00:45impacts and the availability of available alternatives.
00:49European countries were working on that alternative Monday, with ten northern nations, including
00:54Britain, France and Germany, pledging to boost offshore wind energy in the North Sea.
00:59As the continent continues to wean itself off Russia.
01:02No more will we let you weaponize energy against us.
01:07We already produce a lot of offshore wind in the North Sea, as you all know.
01:12But we can produce much more.
01:15Ministers had already pledged in 2023 to develop 300 gigawatts of clean energy capacity in the
01:21North Sea by mid-century.
01:24The Hamburg declaration signed Monday envisages that 100 gigawatts of the target will be quickly
01:30delivered through large-scale joint wind projects.
01:34The agreement contrasts sharply with Donald Trump's opposition to green energy.
01:38In Europe, its role is growing in importance as part of its strategic sovereignty and comes
01:44after confidence in its US ally was rattled by Trump's threats to take Greenland.
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