The phaseout would deepen the bloc’s dependence on more expensive US gas, the Slovak prime minister has warned The EU plan to phase out Russia as an energy supplier will end in the US reselling Russian oil and gas to Europe at far higher prices, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has warned. Speaking in Bratislava on Sunday, Fico said Washington has “a huge interest in buying all transit infrastructures” across the European continent. “So the Russians will supply the Americans with gas and oil