European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has an idea for reducing the bloc’s consumption of Russian liquefied natural gas: import more from America.

The European Union is bracing for potential economic fallout as it prepares for the return of Donald Trump to the White House, with fears of a renewed trade war and “Trump tax”. Ursula von der Leyen has already proposed a new strategy to counter Trump's threat of tariffs - buying more liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the US.

“We are still receiving a lot of LNG from Russia, from Russia. And why not replace it with American LNG, which is cheaper and lowers our energy prices,” she said, according to Bloomberg. Von der Leyen mentioned that LNG was “one of the topics we ...