“We can do our part to help Europe become independent of Russian natural gas, perhaps faster than we thought,” ERT quoted him as saying.
Earlier, the President of Cyprus, Nikos Anastasiadis, made a similar proposal.
He stated the need to strengthen the energy autonomy of Europe and stressed that the island state can make a great contribution to this.
At the end of November, EC Director General for Energy Ditte Jul Jørgensen said that the European Union could not yet gain independence from Russian fuel supplies.