The EU quarrels

According to the British "Financial Times" website on the 24th, the European government government is trying to weaken plans to reduce natural gas demand by the European Union in order to better "get" this winter.

It is reported that since the European Commission proposed last week, it was required to reduce the amount of natural gas costs from next month from next month, and diplomats from 27 member states in Europe have been negotiating. This plan has triggered the scale of saving the target of gas and whether Brussels has the right to make it binding. The plan needs to be approved by the member states at the Energy Minister meeting this week.

According to a draft proposal seen by the "Financial Times" reporter, the EU countries suggested that while the entire EU implements the uniform voluntary goal of the EU, the compulsory goal should consider the dependence of various countries to Russia's natural gas and that they have managed to introduce the reserve library. Number of natural gas.

The report pointed out that before the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the European Union relied on Russia to provide about 40%of natural gas, which is 155 billion cubic meters of natural gas, but the European Union has since vowed to cut off the demand for Russia's natural gas by 2027.

Last week, the European Commission suggested that member states should strive to reduce natural gas demand by 15%on the basis of the same period between 2017 and 2021.

According to reports, if the European Commission believes that the energy crisis becomes serious enough, or that there are three member states request to change, then this voluntary reduction goal will become mandatory. But EU member states -especially southern European countries that usually do not rely so on Russia's natural gas -complained that the European Commission has exceeded its scope of power and reduced the target of 15%of the gas volume.

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