EU, UK vow energy security cooperation with home-grown clean sources at the heart

European and UK leaders have pledged to cooperate closely to strengthen energy supply security, and said bringing down fossil fuel imports and ramping up domestic clean sources is the only way to do so. At an energy security summit in London, UK prime minister Keir Starmer and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen cautioned that the energy crisis had highlighted dangerous dependencies on single suppliers, and that such a situation should not occur again. The summit also highlighted a transatlantic rift on the role of clean energy, with the US emphasising fossil fuel abundance as the guarantor of energy security.