I don't know why this is an "amazing fact" for you. Let me explain - since the time of the Soviet Union (but I won’t insist here - I didn’t personally observe it), the USSR and then Russia invested huge amounts of money in bribing, collecting or forming compromising evidence on many European politicians. Remember the same Berlusconi, Schroeder, Merkel, today's presidents of Hungary and the Czech Republic, and many others with lower positions. This is all the "fifth column" of Russia. And they really perform all the commands of the Kremlin ghoul! The monopolization and dependence of the EU hydrocarbon market was built over the years and by the hands of well-known politicians. Uncomfortable politicians were removed, or problems were created for them through nationalist, far-right, and left-wing parties and groups, including terrorist ones. Do you want a fun challenge? Take an excel sheet and start filling in the columns with the following data: date, riots somewhere, and the third column - what events were taking place in or with Russia at that moment? After a couple of months, you will have a perfectly correlated sample of dependent events! The second interesting observation - have you ever noticed that international terrorist activity has a correlation with events around Russia? And as soon as there are real problems in Russia, such as the crisis of 1998, then suddenly all terrorist groups all over the world, except for very specific ones, suddenly subside. Here is such a funny statistic that is extremely easy to check

Well, let's get back to the essence of the matter - and so, all these "impossibility to break gas / oil / coal ties with Russia" - this is a completely manageable, well-protected process. Although we must pay tribute to the EU - recently there have been shifts. By the way - this sharply coincided with the departure from the post of "KGB Major Merkel"