EU Parliament Finalizes Landmark Regulation to Accelerate Cross-Border Energy Interconnectivity and Phase Out Russian Gas by 2027
The European Commission has taken a decisive step to reshape Europe’s energy security and market integration, finalizing a sweeping regulation that mandates the phase-out of all Russian gas and oil imports by the end of 2027 and injects €87 billion into cross-border energy infrastructure. The new law, adopted on December 1, 2025, extends the requirement for EU member states to maintain sufficient gas reserves before winter until 2027 and greenlights 235 cross-border energy projects, marking the largest single expansion of the EU’s internal energy market in a decade.









