The European Union will have to invest up to €300 billion ($316 billion) by 2030 to become independent of Russian energy imports, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday. “We must now reduce as soon as possible our dependency on Russian fossil fuels,” von der Leyen said in a speech in Brussels, presenting the EU’s strategy to break away from Russian energy imports. The calculated sum is needed to implement the commission’s comprehensive plan to end energy imports from Russia as quickly as possible amid Russia’s war in Ukraine. The plan will help save energy, divers…