BERLIN: Germany’s imported oil bill by 31.8 percent to 20.6 billion euros in the first seven months of 2015 even though imports increased, data from the BAFA foreign trade office. Russia supplied 34.9 percent of the total while 26.0 percent.
Reliance on Russian imports rose from 33.2 percent a year earlier, despite the Ukraine crisis and European Commission calls for EU members to diversify away from Russian energy imports.