There are solutions, just unpopular and require a political class that is not fickle and weak.

Solution #1. Capitulate to Putin and treat Russia as a regional power that can gobble and punish its neighbors when they stray too far.

Solution #2. Forget about the climate for the next 5 years, turn on all coal, nuclear powerplants.

Solution #3. Put the Euro printer in overdrive and pay whatever price needed for the little natural gas that's out there and the expense of transportation.

#3 is probably the worst, but also - the easiest for a fickle and weak political class to do. So, that's what's happening.

Won't be surprised if we get hyperinflation in the EU in the winter. The ECB barely functions in good times with its one monetary policy, but different budgets nonsense.