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Brussels explore legal options that allow European agencies to break the long -term Russian gas deal without paying fat fine.
The European Commission is studying the agreements and the possibility of the Force Magur announcement, which will allow importers to come out of their obligation without paying additional fees, with three officials, including planning knowledge.
“If the whole idea does not pay to Russia, then [paying compensation] The whole purpose will be diminished, “an EU official said.
This move highlighted the EU struggle to deprive itself from Russian power and deprive the Kremlin from the Ukraine war for the war of Ukraine. Moscow gas now produces only 5 percent of the block supply through the pipeline, compared to about two-fifths in 2022, but the amount of Russian liquid natural gas LNG has increased rapidly in the last three years.
The lawyers of the Commission are exploring legal options as part of a road map on how the block will relieve themselves from Russian fossil fuel by 2027. The plan comes at an important time EU Since it tries to present a power deal in the United States to fight against President Donald Trump’s tariff rule.
The Commission has refused to comment.
The United States is already the largest supplier of liquid natural gas blocks and is seen as an obvious replacement for further reduction in Russian fuel.
The EU gave Russia a $ 21.9 billion to Russia from February 2021 to February 2021, according to the Energy and Clean Air Research Center.
Unlike Russian coal, gas imports were not subject to ban, while the EU banned 90 percent oil imports from Moscow. In the last three years, the country’s shipped gas imports have increased by about 605 percent, but since 2022, the total Russian gas export is still the lowest.
Street map – mainly in March means that this anxiety is somewhat delayed that any subsequent law will be blocked by Hungary and Slovakia, which is now still flowing to most of the rest of the pipe gas.
Hungary’s Russian government has threatened that it will reject gas sanctions, which requires unanimous approval of the 2 27 member state of EU.
The map of the road has also been pushed back because of the initial discussion The future of Nord Stream The pipeline connects Germany and Russia, which has been restored in US efforts to include the inclusion of gas in the United States to end the Ukraine war and to include gas purchase in trade negotiations with the Trump administration.
“It’s a mess”, a diplomat from the EU. “How does the United States fits in all these cases? How do we diversify? ‘
European Commission president Ursula von deer Leon, however, told the Financial Times that the plan should be published “within three to four weeks”.
Despite the pressure of Brussels, EU countries are careful to force LNG contracts with Russia that companies will raise prices when fighting with geo -political turmoil and high expenditure.
Gave the commission Power Russian and Belarusian operators to prevent them from sending gas to LNG port infrastructure or to send them through EU pipes, but ministers have complained that it does not give enough legal way to force their companies to break their contract.
The complexity of the Commission’s lawyers is the contracts are hidden and separated. The use of Ukraine’s war to call the Force Magure may not be legally adequate, an EU official said.
The ports of France, Spain and Belgium are the main import centers for Russian LNG. The Yamal LNG plant in Moscow still signs with some of the largest EU’s largest energy companies, including shells and natural.
Brussels-based Think-Tank Broogel argued in favor of tariffs on Russian gas imports this month, noting that the former EU would collect revenue for the EU and forced Russian suppliers to remain competitive. Contrary to the restrictions, only the majority of the EU member states need to be back to the approval of the tariffs.
“An effective general equipment in the import of Russian gas is urgently needed – otherwise Russia may use electoral gas supply (possibility) to increase deep distinction between member states,” they wrote.
