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Significant shifts in import patterns can be observed, but it is clear that there is an abundance of transmission capacities to cover the demand. No significant increase in gas prices was observed,
said a spokesman
The situation is stable with all member States using a mix of regular winter storage and imports from third countries, which provide stable supplies to their consumers,
said Poland, which has just assumed the EU's rotating presidencyThere are no security of supply concerns,
said a statement from the EU CommissionThe only alternative for a sovereign Slovakia is renewal of transit or demanding compensation mechanisms that will replace the loss in public finances,
he added
When Putin was given power in Russia more than 25 years ago, the annual gas pumping through Ukraine to Europe was 130+ billion cubic metres. Today, the transit of Russian gas is 0.”
The Ukrainian leader wrote
Russia has abused Ukraine and Europe’s dependence on gas supplies and transit revenues to extort political concessions, spread corruption and exert malign influence.”
A report published in December Center for European Policy Analysis claimed
We must see that selfish national interests of the big [member states] and meaningless geopolitical goals are beginning to dominate this community ... ignoring the needs of smaller ones,
Fico said in a televised address
It was all prepared for. It's basically all priced in. Of course, there's winners and losers to a certain point. Certain countries are more dependent on this than others - Slovakia and Hungary, for example, and Austria,
O'Donnell told VOAHe thought this would force all the European countries that get this gas into a situation where they would capitulate — and they would be unwilling to support Ukraine in the war, and unwilling to show their solidarity. He also thought the war would be over in three or four days. But it just didn't work,
O'Donnell saidWe are ready to discuss with President-elect Trump how we can further strengthen an already strong relationship, including by discussing our common interests in the energy sector,
EU Commission spokesperson Olof Gill said on December 20.Austria is pretty well prepared. They have alternative supplies lined up from Germany and Italy and others. And Slovakia will not run out of gas. They will have plenty of gas. It's just that they'll have to pay more, like everybody else has all along,
he addedNumber two, the United States zoomed up its supplies to Europe,
he addedThey've lost their entire European market, essentially. The second-largest gas fields in the world in Western Siberia have no outlet now,
he addedNorway has done all they could to increase their supplies, and that's been extremely helpful. They're now on the scale of what Russia used to be,
he saidSlovakia was making something like half a billion dollars on transit fees passing the [Russian] gas across their country through their pipeline system onto others — so, redistributing the gas,
he saidI declare (my Smer-SSD party) are ready to debate and agree in the coalition on halting supplies of electricity and on significant lowering of support for Ukrainian citizens in Slovakia,
Fico said
There is of course no crisis,
said Laurent Ruseckas, a leading gas markets expert and executive director at commodities intelligence giant S&P Global
It’s worth bearing in mind that prices are still well beneath their levels seen throughout the entirety of 2022,
said analysts at Deutsche Bank
We are now trying the trick ... that what if the gas, by the time it enters the territory of Ukraine, would no longer be Russian but would be already in the ownership of the buyers,
Orban told a briefing, according to the Reuters news agency
The more there is on the market from Europe's real partners, the faster we will overcome the last negative consequences of European energy dependence on Russia,
he wrote,