Norway is open to discussing potential long-term gas agreements and price caps with European partners to help alleviate the energy crisis, the country’s prime minister has said.
The Scandinavian country has become one of the biggest winners of the fallout from Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, replacing Russia as Europe’s biggest supplier of gas and as a significant seller of oil and electricity across the continent.
“I fully understand that Europe now has a profound debate about how energy markets work, how they can secure more affordable prices for citizens, families, industries, how this shortfall of gas after [Russian president Vladimir] Putin’s aggression can be handled,” Jonas Gahr Støre, Norway’s prime minister, told the Financial Times this week. “Norway is not closing doors to any such discussion.”