“Until the transition to a carbon-free economy is complete, we will need access to natural gas and nuclear energy to, in particular, guarantee the production of the required amount of hydrogen fuel,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Timmermans noted that the date of rejection of these energy sources cannot yet be given.

Earlier, the head of the Directorate General of the European Commission (EC) for Energy, Ditte Juul Jorgensen, said that the role of natural gas in the European Union should be seriously reduced by the middle of the century.