Europe is on a warpath to get rid of Russian oil and gas

Policymakers in Brussels were putting the final touches on a new proposal to slash Russian gas by even more than two-thirds over the next nine months as a deputy prime minister in Moscow threatened to halt natural gas flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which supplied 38 per cent of gas imported into the European Union last year.

If Europe had a long-term political objective before the war to restructure its energy supplies by ....