The horrors of the last hours of the war reignite the debate about European necessity to solve completely off Imports of Russian gas. Kiev’s foreign minister called for “new devastating sanctions” from the G7. Dmytro Kulebawhich includes, among other things, an “embargo on petroleum, natural gas and coal“How many buchas will it take to move to a full embargo on Russian oil and gas? Time is up,” the Secretary of the Democratic Party wrote on Twitter Enrico Letta. And also the German Defense Minister Christina Lambrecht In a television interview, he explained that it was necessary to address the issue of stopping gas supplies in Europe. “There has to be a reaction, these crimes must not go unanswered,” he says.
How many #Bucha before we move to a full oil and gas embargo on Russia? Time is up.
Enrico Letta (@EnricoLetta) April 3, 2022
However, the energy strategy of almost all EU countries is not yet suitable for guaranteeing independence, and the European Council at the end of March could not even agree on a common upper limit for the Russian gas price demanded by the Mediterranean and will be replaced by that of Germany and the Netherlands mentioned “Northern Front” fought. Yesterday the foreign minister Luigi di Maio The visit to Baku announced that imports from Azerbaijan via the Tap pipeline will increase by 2.5 billion cubic meters per year: but that is little more than a drop in the bucket, as last year’s 7 billion were less than 10% of Italian consumption, while the Russian slice is about 40%. “It took the Bucha massacre to receive calls from many places to stop all imports from Russia, including gas, after 40 days of atrocity. If, instead of arms deliveries and marginal economic sanctions, import bans had been decided immediately, Putin might now be sitting at a negotiating table, attacked the MP from Liberi e equuali Stefan Fassina. And also for the secretary of + Europe Benedetto della Vedova “It would be right and humane to suspend purchases of Russian gas until the ceasefire. Let’s try to find a sensible way together in Europe,” he says.
Germany and Austria now they have Early warning activated The energy emergency plan is planned, which provides for careful precautions Monitoring of gas reserves and consumption. According to Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck, the overall supply is still guaranteed, but “every consumer, from companies to private individuals, must also Reduce your consumption as much as possible‘ he specified. The government too Dutch has launched a media campaign to encourage citizens to use less energy: an advertisement in the newspapers urges them to spend less time in the shower and not to heat their homes above 19 degrees. All lead by example public offices They lower the temperature by two degrees. If you take the indicated actions, they say, “your energy bills will go down, our dependence on Russian gas will decrease, and the climate will be good.
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So far, however, only the small state has brought the desired result Lithuania: on Saturday the Minister of Energy from Vilnius announced that all gas required for its own use would be imported in liquid form (Lng) out Klaipeda port terminal, which was inaugurated in 2014 to challenge the very Russian monopoly on imports that thenLithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite described as an “existential threat to the Baltic country. The minister also stressed that the move protects the state from Russian imposition of payment in rubles: “In these circumstances, Russia’s request it loses its meaning, because Lithuania will not order any more gas and does not plan any further payments. “From this month no more Russian gas in Lithuania,” the President of the Republic rejoiced yesterday on Twitter Gitana’s Nauseda, who claims the decisions made years earlier “allow my country to painlessly sever energy ties with the aggressor. If we can do it, The rest of Europe can too“, he wrote. And today Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė reiterates: “Starting today, Lithuania will not consume a cubic centimeter of toxic Russian gas. It is the first country in the European Union to refuse imports”. However, the Baltic state will prohibit the transit of fuel Do not prevent Russia in its exclave Kaliningradbetween Lithuania and Poland.
From now on, Lithuania will not consume one cubic centimeter of toxic Russian gas.
LT is the first EU country to refuse Russian gas imports.
Ingrida Šimonytė (@IngridaSimonyte) April 3, 2022