Social Liberals: Moves to be gas free too slow

Independence of Russian gas is going too slowly, and as such Ukraine is being let down by Denmark, according to the Social Liberal Political Leader and former Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard. “We are failing both Ukraine and ourselves by not taking the transition away from fossil fuels that have blighted our security policy and climate for many years, seriously,” says Martin Lidegaard during the Social Liberals’ New Year’s convention in Nyborg. He points out that the national compromise on Danish security policy, which was agreed shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, was “obviously based on two legs”.
     “Military and economic support to Ukraine – the government has provided that, and I would like to acknowledge that. But the second leg was to stop supporting Putin and his war machine by removing our dependence and consumption of Russian oil and gas. Things are moving far too slowly. And this is not something that has been seriously prioritised in the last two years,” says Lidegaard. The Social Liberal leader believes that Denmark and the EU have “many good reasons” for both climate policy and security policy to become independent of Russian fossil fuels. “And it is necessary if Ukraine is to win that war.” /ritzau/