Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire on Wednesday asked the United States to deliver "
cheaper
" liquefied natural gas to France at a time when the energy crisis is raging in Europe due to the war.
"
We expect more from the American administration
," said the French minister during a remote speech at a meeting of G7 finance ministers in Washington.
According to him, France is waiting “
to obtain cheaper LNG through a long-term approach
”.
After the invasion of Ukraine, Russia considerably reduced its gas deliveries to Europe, on which certain countries such as Germany were very dependent.
The continent then turned to the United States, whose share of European LNG imports rose from 28% to 45% between 2021 and 2022.
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Many states are in fact competing for access to liquefied natural gas, of which the United States is one of the main suppliers in the world.
But this gas is much more expensive to import than that which arrived via the gas pipelines between Russia and Europe.
The speech of the French minister follows that of the German Minister of the Economy Robert Habeck who deplored at the beginning of October the "
astronomical
" prices demanded by the "
friendly
" countries of Germany, the United States in the lead, to supply the gas to compensate for the end of Russian deliveries.
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