Why Europe can't stop with Russian Gas

Into Europe: Europe is dependent on Russian natural gas, which makes up 40% of its total supply. With the Ukrainian conflict, and the sanctions Europe has imposed on Russia, Europe continues to buy Russian natural gas.

So how did Europe get so dependent, and what can be done to fix its dependency?

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[IntoEurope]

Hi everyone, a lot has changed in the last 2 months since I started making this video (the war). I tried to incorporate as many of the recent developments in this video, but have been fighting a losing battle with the 24 hour news cycle. Here is a small (non-exhaustive) list of some of the things that have changed:

-Germany announced that it would go 100% renewable by 2035
-Italy is negotiating with Algeria for natural gas
-The EU's imports of Russian gas reached an all-time high money wise (Bruegel report)

Feel free to add anything that seems relevant.

Cheers,
Hugo

[TheyCalledMeT]

the early shut down of nuclear energy truly is beyond bonkers in this situation.

[DasVideoArchiv]

It amazes me time and time again how you pull off such a high quality with so few people involved.

[Kaslor]

I can tell you why. Because EU politicians were as guillable as children thinking you can pump billions of dollars into pockets of a dictatorship with imperialistic ambitions without consequences. I hope this tragedy will serve as the final wakeup call.

[TugaThings]

Well one can always turn for coal in winter. Also Germany should just stop closing nuclear power plants like an idiot and Europe would have less dependency on Gas.

[VlaMinTV]

the graph at 2:49 is either wrong, or has outdated data.
Romania appears to be importing 75-100% of its gas consumption from Russia, when the highest imports in recent times were in 2021 (40%) and in 2019 (23%)

[FelixAkk]

Love every video Hugo! Keep on researching! :) Btw would love to see a vid on the future of nuclear in Europe, with a deep dive on EPR-reactor economics (most commonly used in EU, and often the planned design for new plants) versus the fossil and wind/solar alternatives. Especially after the recent pains of gas dependence and resurgence of interest in nuclear in the EU I think it would be a natural successor to this video.

[MoneyMacro]

Great video. Very insightful!!! One thing that I was left wondering though is.... what about those pipelines from Northern Africa on your map? Are they able to scale up production somehow?

[ericburton]

Thank you for shedding light on this! You never heard about the former politicians getting these cozy jobs. It's sad that this corruption and foreign influence is only being exposed now that there is a war on these politician's doorsteps. This shouldn't have been allowed!

[solsouth]

I live in Moscow my gas in my apartment only costs $0.50 US cents per month.

[untitledkingdom]

This is seriously such a great and especially original channel. I've been looking for something like this for a while because Europe is such an exciting continent, but most of these culture-and-politics channels are focused on the US or single European countries

[dnyhouse]

Well... it's significantly cheaper than other energy resources so much that it's entirely discouraging to find other sources to the extent that Europe needs.

[Duck-wcde]

Portugal and Spain have 8 ports ready to import lots of LPG from the US and other countries that are relativelly empty because of the supply chain colapse.

but there is no major Iberian-france conection. this is something that should be discussed.

[garrygryzly]

Gas in Europe went from $800 to $3, 800, it's a disaster, sanctions are killing Europe's economy

[fabulouscat]

Good video!

One minor criticism, 7:08 the pipeline doesn't go through Armenia, it goes through Georgia.

Other than that, good job!

[bratupmarian]

2:53 For Romania this is not true. Romanian internal production ~= 80% of the total consumption.

[mixk]

I know this is a national problem for Poland and not an EU-wide fiasco, but as much as we can thank the SLD-PSL-UP coalition government for leading Poland inti the EU, we must also "thank" them for not renewing contract to gas supplies to Norway, making Russia have a de facto monopoly over our gas supplies. PiS and PO both had many worse scandals than what happened during the 2001-2005 government, but let's not pretend severing contracts with Norway didn't harm Poland's and to an extent EU's interests in the long run.

[DarkHill]

Limiting Europeans to react??? Have you seen all of their sanctions?! Did it limit them???

[michadoniec]

Hi. Maybe some update? Europe is now mostly russian gas free (only Hungary AFAIK receives it) and honestly it looked out we got out of it quite well.

[Kafei]

Congratulation to every country who had the brillant idea to get rid of nuclear power, really clever guys.