“Before the annual speech of the head of the EC on Wednesday in Strasbourg on Tuesday, a meeting of the Board of the European Commission with an ambitious agenda will be held,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
Earlier, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said that Europe's energy security is impossible without Russia.
The Prime Minister of the federal state of Bavaria, Markus Söder, noted that the German authorities are having problems finding alternatives to gas supplies from Russia.