Karin Kneissl has told RT the bloc’s push to replace inexpensive Russian gas and oil with US imports violates the Treaty of Lisbon The self-defeating energy policies forced on member states by the European Union leadership are in breach of a key treaty regulating relations within the bloc, former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl has told RT. She lamented the EU’s overreliance on US energy supplies in an “ideological” effort to replace inexpensive Russian gas and oil. Speaking to RT on