Italy has reduced the share of its gas supplies from Russia to 10 percent, overcoming its dependence on Moscow with imports from Africa and across the Adriatic Sea, Italian Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin said on Sunday.
“While Russia used to account for 40 percent of our gas needs, today we import a little over 10 percent. So we have actually overcome our dependence on Moscow by increasing gas imports from the East via the TAP (Trans Adriatic Pipeline) and from Africa thanks to new agreements with Algeria and Libya,” the minister told Italian daily Corriere della Sera.
