On October 23rd, 2025 the EU passed a landmark new sanction package which will be crucial in its struggle towards complete decoupling from Russian fossil fuels. Among other measures, the package bans Russian LNG imports from 2027. Still, criticalities remain: Russia has managed to avoid sanctions by means of a “shadow fleet” of tankers and internal divergences make a common and decisive position on the matter hard to reach. Can the bloc decouple itself from Russian energy, once and for all?

BESS storage hardships put the EU’s energy strategy at risk. What does this mean for the European energy market?