EA on TRT World: Can the EU Cut Off Imports of Russia’s Oil and Gas?

Posted by Scott Lucas | May 3, 2022 | 0

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As the European Union moves towards a phaseout of imports of Russian oil, I joined Turkey’s TRT World to analyze whether the EU can go farther with a cutoff of all Russian energy supplies.

We discuss the EU response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the position with imports in the past and now, and the timetable for a possible halt — oil by the end of 2022 and gas by 2024.

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Scott Lucas

Scott Lucas is Professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin; Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Birmingham; and editor-in-chief of EA WorldView.He is a specialist in US and British foreign policy and international relations, especially the Middle East and Iran. Formerly he worked as a journalist in the US, writing for newspapers including the Guardian and The Independent and was an essayist for The New Statesman before he founded EA WorldView in November 2008.

EA on TRT World: Can the EU Cut Off Imports of Russia’s Oil and Gas?

Photo: Reuters

As the European Union moves towards a phaseout of imports of Russian oil, I joined Turkey’s TRT World to analyze whether the EU can go farther with a cutoff of all Russian energy supplies.

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