00:00Nearly four years after Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine,
00:05EU leaders have finalized a ban on natural gas imports from Russia.
00:10It aims at ending dependency on Russian energy through achieving a...
00:15resilient EU energy market and preserving the EU security of...
00:20Russia supplied more than 40% of the EU's gas before 2020.
00:25A share that dropped to around 13% last year.
00:30The total ban by late 2027 still saw opposition from Hungary and Slovakia...
00:35who remain reliant on Russian energy.
00:38For Slovakia, this timeline...
00:40raises serious questions regarding security of supply.
00:45economic impacts and the availability of available alternatives.
00:50countries were working on that alternative Monday...
00:52with 10 northern nations, including Britain...
00:55France and Germany pledging to boost offshore wind energy in the North Sea.
01:00as the continent continues to wean itself off Russia.
01:03No more...
01:05We let you weaponize energy against us.
01:07We already produce a lot of offshore wind...
01:10wind and the North Sea, as you all know.
01:12But we can produce much more.
01:15Ministers had already pledged in 2023 to develop 300 giga...
01:20watts of clean energy capacity in the North Sea by mid-century.
01:25The Bloomberg declaration signed Monday...
01:27envisages that 100 gigawatts of the target will be...
01:30quickly delivered through large-scale joint wind projects.
01:35It contrasts sharply with Donald Trump's opposition to green energy.
01:39In Europe, its role...
01:40is growing in importance...
01:41as part of its strategic sovereignty...
01:43and comes after confidence...
01:45its US ally was rattled...
01:47by Trump's threats to take Greenland.
01:50The only way to protect Greenland has opened the city...
01:52areas of the United States is affecting the climate...
01:54our Lord's
01:56the government has been able to trap the world,
01:57and is what we're seeing...
01:58in the area...
02:00to keep the world as the government is going.
02:02And the government is going to understand the weather...
02:03where they're missing...
02:05in the regional government...
02:06the government has made 2 1 000...
02:08the government is a bridge that we lose the country...
02:09the government, this government is going to be
02:10to help us.
02:11So, we have all the laws of the United States...
02:14the government can be to help us.
02:16the government can be to help us...
02:17and that we have to help us...
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