After escaping Russian energy dependence, Europe is locking itself in to US LNG

September 17, 2025

Following her State of the European Union address to the European Parliament last week, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen got an earful from MEPs angry about her “surrender deal” with Donald Trump. Iratxe Garcia Perez, leader of the centre-left S&D group, blasted von der Leyen’s hypocrisy in calling for Europe to have courage and fight when she herself showed no courage with Trump. “You went to Scotland to bury Europe’s strategic autonomy under a golf course,” she told her.

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