EU Leaders Endorse Energy Imports Plan

EU leaders on Friday endorsed plans to secure Europe’s energy imports, a blueprint that calls for creating new supply routes and signing energy treaties with producers such as Russia.

“There is a continuing need for the EU to respond to the worldwide competition for access to increasingly scarce sources of energy,” the heads of state said in a final statement at the end of two days in talks in Brussels.

They told the European Commission and the EU’s foreign policy chief to talk to energy suppliers and countries through which oil and gas are transported to Europe and “give full support” to infrastructure projects that could open up new supply routes.

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