The European Commissioner for Energy and Housing, a member of the European Commission, has announced the relaunch of a joint procurement platform to help EU companies buying non-Russian gas (Reuters, 28/10/2025).
The tool, known as AggregateEU, aggregates gas purchase requests from European companies and matches them with offers from suppliers, enabling matched companies to negotiate gas contracts. This initiative is guided by key deadlines: a ban on Russian LNG imports from January 2027 and the planned phase-out of all Russian oil and gas imports by January 2028, pressuring countries such as Hungary and Slovakia to secure alternative energy supplies.
Since 2022, gas imports have decreased by 10%/year (-7.5% in 2024) to 332 bcm in 2024. Two thirds of gas are imported through pipelines (219 bcm), mainly from Algeria (23% in 2024), Norway (18%), Russia (17%, down from 41% in 2021), and Azerbaijan (10%). In 2024, LNG accounted for nearly 34% of EU gas imports, compared to 20% in 2021; the United States was the largest supplier (almost 45%, twice their 2021 level).
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