The European Union imports more than 80% of the gas it consumes.

Omissions

• The MEP's full statement also claimed oil import dependency of 'more than 95%' and a daily cost increase of half a billion since Hormuz; these elements are not part of the normalized claim being verified here.
• The exact import dependency rate varies by year: 87.6% in 2025 (Eurostat) and 83.6% in 2020; the claim's lower bound of 'more than 80%' holds across these periods.

Sources

• PrimaryEurostat — Natural gas supply statistics (Statistics Explained)In 2025, the EU's natural gas import dependency rate was 87.6%.
• PrimaryEurostat — EU energy mix and import dependency (Statistics Explained PDF)available energy and had an import dependency rate of 83.6% in 2020 with imports of 400.6 billion cubic meters