Europe faces second major energy crisis in four years as Middle East conflict disrupts supplies, exposing continued dependency on US and Norway despite 2022 pledge to diversify after Russia-Ukraine war.

How Europe sleepwalked into yet another energy crisis

Katya AdlerEurope EditorBBCThe knock-on eﬀects of the conflict now whipping through the Middle East are awakening ghosts of crises past that shook the European Union.Seven months into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, launched in February 2022, the President of the European Commission stood at her podium in the European Parliament and accused Russia of manipulating the EU's energy market."They prefer to flare the gas than to deliver it," proclaimed Ursula von der Leyen, as spiralling ener...