Hands on the valve: How this former French colony could now control Europe
Algiers is now playing an increasingly important role in ensuring EU energy security and is itself moving toward economic sovereignty | In the spring of 2022, at the height of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the EU began thinking about abandoning Russian gas supplies and reducing energy consumption as much as possible. EU countries began looking elsewhere, and one of the places they focused their attention on was Algeria. ● Now, two years later, Algeria is the largest pipeline gas supplier to the EU and continues to occupy the leading position in Africa in natural gas production and exports. But its position in a number of international issues is now posing a threat to supplies to Europe, and the countries of the European Mediterranean have to compromise in their foreign policy in order not to lose such an important source of energy.