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Speech by President von der Leyen at the Summit on the Future of Energy Security

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연사: President von der Leyen

일시: Apr 24, 2025

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_1100

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Glossary

1)    COP 28:  제28차 유엔기후변화협약 당사국총회

2)    REPowerEU: REPowerEU 계획

-  EU의 러시아 에너지 의존 중단 및 친환경 전환 가속화를 위한 계획

3)    Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen: 댄 요르겐센 집행위원

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We are facing a new paradigm for energy security. In Europe, we witnessed firsthand how Russia intentionally weaponised energy supplies. In the Middle East, conflict has stoked instability and threatened global shipping. And across the Atlantic, the threat of tariffs risk further disruption of crucial supply chains. And that is why today's meeting is so timely. Because reliable and affordable energy is the lifeblood of our economies, it underpins our national security, and it sustains our industrial and economic competitiveness.

The positive news is that we see progress on energy security worldwide. Over the last decade, 1 billion people have gained reliable access to electricity. If we deliver on the collective goals we set at COP28, this will help in addition. If we triple renewable energy and double energy efficiency, we will bring reliable and affordable energy to millions more around the world. Because clean homegrown renewables not only strengthen our resilience, they of course also spur new jobs and more innovation within our own economies. As our energy dependency on fossil fuels goes down, our energy security goes up. That is the lesson we have learnt in Europe.

At the start of this decade, we were over-reliant on one single supplier for our energy needs. Let me give you some figures: Russia provided 45% of our gas, 50% of our coal, and nearly one-third of our oil. For decades, we failed to recognise the costs that came with this dependence. The risk of blackmail, economic coercion, prices shocks; that reality was exposed after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia tried to exploit our over-dependence by cutting us off the gas. They tried to cause economic turmoil and weaken our resolve for Ukraine. They failed. We answered with REPowerEU. We diversified our supply. We accelerated the clean energy transition. We went from 45% of our gas imports coming from Russia, down to 18%. We went from one-in-five barrels of oil down to one-in-fifty, a tenfold reduction. And we went to zero coal from Russia. In sum, we cut funding for Russia's war economy and strengthened our energy security.

But we all know that there is so much more to do. In two weeks, our Energy Commissioner, Dan Jørgensen, will present a roadmap, with concrete measures to phase out all imports of Russian fossil fuels. So that we will no longer rely on a hostile power for our energy supply. On gas supply, we have not forgotten how the United States immediately stepped in with LNG when we needed it during the energy crisis.