Despite the Ukraine war
EU has imported Russian gas for 32.7 billion euros since the beginning of the war
Despite sanctions, the EU continues to receive liquid natural gas from Russia. This emerges from new Eurostat numbers. Now a politician calls for an import ban.
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has just presented the new sanction package of the European Union against Russia. It is the 18th of this kind, includes a transaction ban for the two natural gas pipelines north stream 1 and north stream 2. No EU operator may participate in transactions related to the pipelines.
New figures now show: Elsewhere, the EU continues to import energy from Russia to a great extent. From February 2022 to March 2025, the EU has received Russian LNG, i.e. liquefied natural gas, worth 32.7 billion euros. From the United States, LNG of around 95.1 billion euros came during this period. This emerges from Eurostat numbers, which the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht had requested from the Federal Statistical Office and the one star present.
Wagenknecht speaks of “expensive double standards”
In the first quarter of 2025, the imports of Russian LNG were 2.7 billion euros and thus significantly higher than in the previous year’s quarter (1.8 billion euros). “This is the expensive double standards of sanction policy,” said BSW boss Sahra Wagenknecht star. “33 billion euros since the start of the war for Russian LNG, but Russian pipeline gas is declared a taboo in Germany.” The result is “high energy prices that make citizens poorer”.
Strack-Zimmermann calls for import ban
The chairwoman of the Committee on Security and Defense in the European Parliament, Marie-Egnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP), on the other hand, demands that the imports of Russian LNG stop. “It is absolutely unacceptable that the European Union three years after Putin’s brutal war of aggression continues to move in a billion dollar gas from Russia,” said Strack-Zimmermann star. “32.7 billion euros since February 2022 – this is not only an energy policy declaration of bankruptcy, but above all a security -political failure. Putin’s war machinery is funded by every single euro that we pay for Russian LNG.”
If you mean the shoulder with Ukraine seriously, you must also be consistent with the sanctions, according to the FDP politician: “I ask the European Commission and the Member States to finally get an import ban for Russian LNG.”
Source: Stern
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