“The European Commission has stated that the EU will completely refuse to import fossil fuels from Russia by the end of 2027, regardless of the further development of the war in Ukraine. Source: “European Truth”, European Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen, quoted by The Guardian details: the European Commission presented a plan for the gradual stopping of Russian gas importation by the European Commission on June 17.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: “European Truth”, European Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen, quoted by The Guardian
Details: The European Commission presented a plan for the gradual stopping of Russian gas imports on June 17. Yorgensen stressed that the prohibited ban on the import of Russian gas will remain valid even if peace is reached in Ukraine.
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According to him, this decision is dictated not only by the full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation, but above all by the fact that Moscow used energy as weapons.
“We impose this ban because Russia uses energy as weapons against us, because Russia is blackmailing the EU Member States, and therefore it is not a trading partner that can be trusted,” he said.
“It also means that no matter whether there is peace or not – and we all hope that it will be – this ban will remain in force,” the European Commissar added.
The new initiative has already provoked resistance from Hungary, Slovakia and Austria – countries that are still significantly dependent on Russian energy.
However, according to preliminary estimates, they do not have sufficient support among other Member States to block the transformation of the plan into compulsory EU legislation.
We will remind, in Austria it is believed that the EU should be open until the restoration of imports of Russian natural gas, if a peace agreement is concluded between Russia and Ukraine.