More generally, this incident has thrown into sharp focus our increasing dependency on external energy supply.

What we need in securing external energy supplies is cooperation and solidarity, not competition between Member States.

It relied on passive measures, not requiring operator actions or external energy supplies, to provide safe operation.

Today there are still isolated regions of the EU that depend almost one hundred per cent on external energy supplies.

(ES) Mr President, given the EU's dependence on external energy supplies, securing its supply is an issue which must always form part of the EU's external policy.

The European Union's growing dependence on external energy supplies, mainly from unstable countries, gives rise to concerns regarding the economic and political interests of the Member States as well as the EU's overall security.