The European Union faces the risk of falling short of securing enough gas supplies for winter in 2023, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday. In a speech to the European Parliament in Brussels, von der Leyen warned that obtaining energy supplies for next year’s winter “will be even more challenging” than in 2022. The EU scrambled to replace Russian energy imports – gas especially – in the aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine in a bid to end a years-long dependency. Moscow meanwhile throttled deliveries to the bloc, viewed as retaliation for Western sanctions impo…