According to a statement from the European Commission on 3 December, this year will be the last for the Union to receive Russian gas imports - a moment that the bloc has been building towards since Moscow's 2022 full-blown invasion of Ukraine.
Before then the European gas landscape was dominated by Russia, which provided roughly 45 of the EU's total gas imports approximately 150bn cubic metres per year. At that time, Algeria was a reliable but secondary partner, accounting for only 8 to 12.
The map has since been radically redrawn. Algeria has emerged as the Union's largest gas supplier via pipeline after Norway in the pipeline sector, supplying nearly 20 of the EU's pipeline imports.
