Norway

The EU and Norway enjoy a strong relationship as neighbours, partners and allies, reaching new levels of cooperation in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  

At 31%, Norway was the EU’s largest supplier of natural gas (pipeline and liquified natural gas) in 2025, up from 24% in 2021. Norway accounted for the majority of EU pipeline gas imports in 2025 at 86 billion cubic metres (54%).

(Sources: Pipeline data - ENTSO-G; LNG data - European Commission calculation based on LSEG (Refinitiv) and ENTSO-G.)

EU-Norway Green Alliance

The EU and Norway signed the Green Alliance, the most comprehensive form of bilateral engagement established under the European Green Deal, on 24 April 2023 in Brussels. The agreement between the 2 parties will strengthen

• cooperation on the clean energy and industrial transition
• joint climate action
• environmental protection efforts

They agreed to commit to climate neutrality and to align their domestic and international climate policies to pursue this goal as well as jointly promote ambitious climate action on the global stage. To help keep global temperature rise within the 1.5C limit, the agreement confirms that full respect for the precautionary principle is paramount in the Arctic region.

The EU and Norway reviewed progress and next steps of the Green Alliance in an implementation meeting on 23 January 2026.

Energy dialogue 

The European Commissioner responsible for energy and the Norwegian Minister for Energy meet regularly for the EU-Norway Energy Dialogue. On 21 November 2025, Commissioner for Energy and Housing, Dan Jørgensen, and the Norwegian Minister of Energy, Terje Aasland co-chaired the dialogue in Brussels.

The energy dialogue was launched in 2002 and aims to foster cooperation with Norway on a broad range of energy issues, such as international energy, global energy supply and demand, policy developments in Norway and the EU, implementation of EU energy rules in Norway, cooperation on technology and carbon capture and storage.

Norway is a member of the European Economic Area (EEA) and incorporates EU legislation in the energy field, which creates a level-playing field for all economic activity taking place across the EEA.

EU-Norway energy conference

The EU-Norway energy conference takes place regularly, usually back-to-back with the EU-Norway Energy Dialogue meetings, to discuss a broad range of energy cooperation topics.

• 7th EU-Norway energy conference (21 November 2025)
• 6th EU-Norway energy conference (24 October 2023)
• 5th EU-Norway energy conference (1 October 2021)
• 4th EU-Norway energy conference (5 February 2019)
• 3rd EU-Norway energy conference (5 February 2016)
• 2^nd EU-Norway energy conference (25 September 2014)