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Fico warns EU Russian gas phaseout could deepen Europe’s dependence on expensive US LNG

RT News · · 332 words · By Russia Today
Slovak National Sovereignty Russian Energy Influence EU-US Energy Relations
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7 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“The EU plan to phase out Russia as an energy supplier will end in the US reselling Russian oil and gas to Europe at far higher prices”
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While evidence confirms the EU's plan to phase out Russian energy, there is no evidence in the provided search results regarding the US reselling Russian oil/gas to Europe at higher prices.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Russian government conducted foreign electoral interference in the 2016 United States elections with the goals of sabotaging the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, boosting the presidential…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Russia–European Union relations are the international relations between the European Union (EU) and Russia. Russia borders five EU member states: Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland; the Ru…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia–European_Union_relation…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Russo-Ukrainian war began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied Crimea and annexed it from Ukraine. It then supported Russian separatist armed…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_war
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“the share of Russian liquefied gas in Europe is increasing”
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Multiple web search results indicate that Russian LNG supplies to the EU increased by 21% to a record 21.5 billion cubic meters and that the total share of Russian gas (including LNG) remained significant (15%).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — European Russia is the western and most populated part of the Russian Federation. It is geographically situated in Europe, as opposed to the country's sparsely populated and vastly larger eastern part…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Russia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Russia supplies a significant volume of fossil fuels to other European countries. In 2021, it was the largest exporter of oil and natural gas to the European Union, (90%) and 40% of gas consumed in th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_in_the_European_energy_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Russia–European Union relations are the international relations between the European Union (EU) and Russia. Russia borders five EU member states: Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland; the Ru…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia–European_Union_relation…
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“France can buy liquefied gas from Russia”
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The provided evidence for France consists of general geographical and historical information and does not mention the purchase of Russian LNG.
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web search NEUTRAL — France retains its centuries-long status as a global centre of art, science, and philosophy. It hosts the fourth-largest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, with 54 in total, and is the world's lea…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France
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web search NEUTRAL — 2 days ago · France, a country of northwestern Europe, is historically and culturally among the most important countries in the Western world. It has also played a highly significant role in internati…
https://www.britannica.com/place/France
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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 16, 2023 · Where is France? France is a country located in North Western Europe. It is geographically positioned both in the Northern and Eastern hemispheres of the Earth. France is bordered by 7 …
https://www.worldatlas.com/maps/france
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“In February, the European Commission doubled down on long-standing plans to phase out Russian fossil fuel imports by 2027”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm the European Commission's plan to phase out Russian fossil fuel imports by the end of 2027.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 24 February 2022, during the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, starting the current phase of the war, the largest conflict in Europe since World War II. By Apri…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukrai…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The February Revolution (Russian: Февральская революция), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution, and sometimes as the March Revolution, was the first of two re…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_Revolution
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Russian war crimes are violations of international criminal law including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide which the official armed and paramilitary forces of Russia have …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_war_crimes
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“the EU will not abandon its pivot away from Russian liquefied natural gas, the bloc’s energy chief, Dan Jorgensen, told the Financial Times last month”
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Wikipedia confirms Dan Jørgensen is the European Commissioner for Energy and Housing, but the specific statement to the Financial Times regarding the pivot away from Russian LNG is not found in the provided evidence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dan Jannik Jørgensen (Danish pronunciation: [ˈtɛˀn ˈjɶɐ̯ˀn̩sn̩]; born 12 June 1975) is a Danish politician of the Social Democrats who has served as the European Commissioner for Energy and Housing si…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Jørgensen
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The European Commissioner for Energy and Housing is a member of the European Commission. The current Commissioner is Dan Jørgensen, in office since 1 December 2024.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commissioner_for_Ener…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nigel Dunnett (1962 – c. 26 April 2026) was a British horticulturalist and academic who was a professor of planting design and urban horticulture at the University of Sheffield. He worked on naturalis…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Dunnett
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“Washington launched a multi-billion dollar push to invest in and build a major US pipeline project in Central and Eastern Europe”
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The provided evidence for the US and Central/Eastern Europe consists of general Wikipedia entries and does not mention a multi-billion dollar pipeline project.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe (ISSN 2365-7758) is a bi-annual open-access academic journal with double blind peer-review. Apparatus is supported by the DFG…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparatus_(journal)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe. Central Europe is known for its cultural diversity; however, countries in this region also sha…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent. As a largely ambiguous term, it has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, ethnic, cultural and socio-economic connotations. Its eastern b…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Europe
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“Central and Eastern Europe... still imports Russian gas via the TurkStream pipeline and its extension – Balkan Stream”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of dictionary definitions of the word 'central' and does not contain information about the TurkStream or Balkan Stream pipelines.
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web search NEUTRAL — The meaning of CENTRAL is containing or constituting a center. How to use central in a sentence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/central
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web search NEUTRAL — Of course, you pay more for premises with a central location (= in or near the center of a town). Some late news has just come in - a bomb has exploded in central London. In many churches the side ais…
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/centr…
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web search NEUTRAL — Some late news has just come in - a bomb has exploded in central London. In many churches the side aisles are separated from the central aisle by a row of arches. The bridge's central support gave way…
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/central
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