Может ли ЕС позволить себе постепенно отказаться от импорта российских энергоносителей?

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Может ли ЕС позволить себе постепенно отказаться от импорта российских энергоносителей?  Прекращение импорта российских энергоносителей – цель новой программы RepowerEU, которую представила Европейская комиссия. Исполнительный орган ссылается на соображения безопасности, добавляя, что это также ускорит энергетический переход ЕС, но каковы препятствия на пути к достижению этой цели?  ЧИТАТЬ ДАЛЕЕ : http://ru.euronews.com/2025/05/27/mozhet-li-es-pozvolit-sebe-postepenno-otkazatsya-ot-importa-rossijskih-energonositelej  Подписывайтесь: Euronews можно смотреть на Dailymotion на 12 языках

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00:30EU Decoded explains the objectives and the obstacles of the new Repower EU Roadmap.

00:37Europe began to move away from its energy dependence on Russia after the large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

00:44The war led to a spike in energy prices and the EU has since reduced its imports.

00:49Oil has fallen from 27% to 3%, gas has fallen from 45% to 19%.

00:56Coal, which then accounted for 50% of EU consumption, has been banned entirely by sanctions.

01:03The EU executive now wants to phase out all such imports by 2027.

01:09Nevertheless, the EU continues to contribute to Russia's budgets.

01:13Energy imports in 2024 brought in 23 billion euros to Moscow's coffers.

01:18We asked some Europeans about the ends of these imports.

01:22Magyarországon, amennyire én tudom, nincsenek meg a feltételi jelenleg annak,

01:26hogy máshonnan is komoly mennyiségű gázt importáljunk.

01:30Akkor azt gondolom, hogy ez egy olyan dolog,

01:33hogy hajlandó vagyok többet fizetni azért, hogy ez a konfliktus véget térjen.

01:38Azért a konfliktus véget érteljük, hogy ez a konfliktus véget érteljük, azért a konfliktus véget érteljük.

01:43We should be looking externally for these things.

01:46I mean, why would we be sending money to countries that are hurting other countries?

01:50Europe does need gas, and finding new sources of gas

01:54probably is not as simple as, you know, going from day one to day two.

01:58I think, yes, we have to come up with a way to be sustainable,

02:01but I think Europe doesn't have the means to do that for the time being.

02:06We are still dependent.

02:07Euronews reporter Jorge Liborero has been following the EU's disengagement with Russia.

02:13What's the relation between the sanctions on Russian fuels

02:17and this new Repower EU roadmap?

02:21Well, it's related, but it's very different.

02:23We have to say sanctions are a foreign policy instrument

02:26that is used mainly to curtail the revenues that Russia earns

02:29to then fund the war of aggression against Ukraine.

02:33Now, the Repower EU, the main objective is to end the dependency that we have on Russian fuels.

02:40So the logic is the same, but the roadmap is trade and energy policy.

02:45So this is very important because it means it doesn't require the unanimity that sanctions require.

02:52Which countries are likely to oppose the phase-out of Russian fuels?

02:57Hungary and Slovakia, nobody would be surprised to know this.

03:00They are still reliant on Russian fuels.

03:04They say that the phase-out from Russia will increase prices,

03:08will make prices more volatile for consumers and companies.

03:11And they also say it violates the sovereign right of every member state to choose their energy mix.

03:18But because we don't need unanimity, it will be easy to pass this?

03:22Exactly. I think this is why the Commission is trying this new way,

03:26you know, with trade and energy policy,

03:28to bypass any individual vetoes that we might see in the future.

03:32How does the Commission intend to break these contracts with Russia

03:36and what could be the risks for the companies in this sector?

03:40Well, there are risks because the contracts with Russian companies are usually long-term.

03:45They cover many years.

03:46So if you break the contract, you have to pay penalties for breaking the contract.

03:51So what the Commission is saying is that by imposing these bans,

03:55this prohibition on gas from Russia,

03:58the companies will have a strong excuse to invoke what is known as force majeure,

04:03which allows a company, a client, to break the contract without facing any penalties

04:09because there's a circumstance that it's beyond their control.

04:13The RepowerEU roadmap proposes

04:16a ban on new short-term contracts for pipeline gas and LNG by the end of 2025,

04:22a ban on imports of these gases under existing long-term contracts by the end of 2027,

04:28new restrictions to phase out imports of uranium, enriched uranium and other nuclear materials,

04:35no new contracts with Russian suppliers, co-signed by the Euratom supply agency.

04:41Around a third of EU member states will be affected.

04:44Russian gas reaches 10 southern, central and eastern countries.

04:49Oil is used only by Hungary and Slovakia.

04:53Nuclear materials and services are used in seven countries.

04:56Our guest is Svetelina Penkov, a Bulgarian socialist

05:01that is also one of the vice-chairs of the European Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.

05:07Does the EU have a sufficient safety net to avoid major disruptions in the market,

05:12including high prices, by cutting totally the Russian energy?

05:17We've been trying to cut off the dependencies, create enough storage, find alternative suppliers

05:24and routes to ensure that the European industry and our households would not suffer from those shocks.

05:31We've done a lot in terms of legislative framework.

05:34Of course, there is still more to be done, given that the dependency was quite high,

05:38but we've cut in terms of the volumes that we use.

05:41Could you be creating new dependencies, particularly from the gas coming from the United States,

05:48with which we have a trade war ongoing?

05:51Well, that's one of the traps that we can fall into.

05:55Once we're trying to switch from one dependency, we shouldn't be falling into another.

05:59Basically, diversification and risk reduction means that we really need to have many more suppliers

06:05and not put all of our eggs into one basket.

06:08I'll give one example of a country that was very responsive in terms of the alternative gas supply

06:16that we needed with the start of the war.

06:18This was Azerbaijan.

06:20They were the first one, actually, to proactively offer additional supplies of natural gas to the EU.

06:28And they also increased their production capacity almost twice

06:33to be able to meet the increasing demand from the EU.

06:36And finally, how successful is the EU in transitioning to renewable energy

06:41when the European Green Deal is increasingly watered down?

06:46I think the European Green Deal set the infrastructure and the framework,

06:50which makes it possible now to be speaking about the industrial deal.

06:55When we're speaking about energy stability and predictability of prices,

06:58we really need to be very clear that we need a balanced energy mix.

07:04A balanced energy mix means renewable energy sources and baseload power.

07:10I'm really happy that the moods towards nuclear energy in the EU are changing in a positive direction now

07:18because to ensure the stability in the energy system, we really do need baseload power,

07:23which, in this case, the only future option for the Union is investing in nuclear energy.

07:29Madam Tenkova, thank you very much for your contribution.

07:32The European Commission stated that it wants to stop filling the Kremlin's war chest.

07:37The president, Ursula von der Leyen, even said no more Russians fuels forever.

07:42But some member states would like to resume business with Russia after the war,

07:47which could lead to lower energy prices.

07:50The European Union is walking a tightrope between protecting economy and ensuring security.

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