After Moscow’s decision to cut off energy supplies to Poland and Bulgaria for refusing to pay in rubles, the president of the European Commission has assured that this challenge will have an “immediate, united and coordinated” response from the EU.
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The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyenwarned this Wednesday the companies that buy gas from Russia that if they yield to the “blackmail” of the Kremlin of pay in rubles the supply when it is not foreseen in their purchase contracts will suppose a violation of the sanctions that the European Union imposes on the regime of Vladimir Putin that could have legal consequences for these companies.
In a statement to the press following Moscow’s decision to cut power supply to Poland and Bulgaria for refusing to pay in rubles, the head of the Community Executive has assured that this challenge will have an “immediate, united and coordinated” response from the EU, while pointing out that the bloc is working “intensely” on the next package of coercive measures, without clarifying the schedule or content.
“Russia’s request to pay in rubles is a unilateral decision and does not respond to the contracts,” stressed Von der Leyen, who has indicated that 97% of the companies’ gas supply contracts stipulate “explicitly” payment for gas in euros or dollars and has warned that accepting payment in the Russian currency will have “a high risk for companies”.
It comes as no surprise that the Kremlin uses fossil fuels to blackmail us.
This is something the @EU_Commission has been preparing for, with Member States and international partners.
Our response will be immediate, united and coordinated.
https://t.co/hUc7DzGfd5
– Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) April 27, 2022
Extraordinary meeting
He has also announced that the EU energy ministers will meet extraordinarily “as soon as possible” to address the situation.
In the opinion of the head of the Community Executive, Moscow’s decision to cut off supplies to Poland and Bulgaria represents a “provocation”but has made it clear that the bloc is “not surprised” that the Kremlin wants to use fossil fuels to blackmail the EU.
In this sense, Von der Leyen has assured that, currently, Poland and Bulgaria are receiving gas from “their European neighbors”, something that demonstrates “solidarity” in the face of possible disruptions in gas supply.
German policy has recalled that the EU is working to diversify gas supply in the “medium term” by strengthening its relationship with other suppliers and has added that the sixth package of sanctions “will arrive in due time”, but that the bloc is working “intensely so that it can be adopted as soon as possible.
Source: Eitb
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