EU leaders to Urge Greater Effort to Cut Gas Imports

European Union leaders will call for greater efforts to cut reliance on imported gas at a Brussels summit next week, a draft document shows, underlining their concern about strained relations with dominant energy supplier Russia over Ukraine.   Ukraine is a transit route for shipping Russian gas to the EU, which relies on Russia for about a third of its supplies.   Past supply disruption because of pricing disputes between Moscow and Kiev had already motivated EU leaders to...

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