{"id":1247789,"date":"2025-06-17T15:53:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T12:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/austria-proposed-a-return-to-purchasing-russian-gas-after-the-end-of-the-war\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T15:53:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T12:53:41","slug":"austria-proposed-a-return-to-purchasing-russian-gas-after-the-end-of-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/austria-proposed-a-return-to-purchasing-russian-gas-after-the-end-of-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria proposed a return to purchasing Russian gas after the end of the war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>During a recent meeting of EU representatives, Austrian State Secretary Elisabeth Zehtner urged Brussels to &#8220;leave room for reconsideration of the position on Russian energy supplies&#8221; after peace is achieved.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/f1272e5c-8d61-4ad1-bee7-a9f9c0b4ef82\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Financial Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Journalists emphasized that this is the first public initiative of this nature from an EU country that previously took a hard line on refusing Russian gas.<\/p>\n<p> Before that, only Hungary and Slovakia allowed themselves such rhetoric, while other countries, in particular Italy, discussed it only behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p> However, the European Commission has strongly rejected this prospect. European Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen said that even in the event of a peaceful resolution to the war, &#8220;a return to purchasing Russian gas would be an unwise step that would only increase the financing of the Russian military.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Amid the European Commission&#8217;s preparations to present an official plan for complete energy independence from Russia, Austria&#8217;s statement became an unexpected signal of possible cracks in European unity on this issue.<\/p>\n<p> It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/nimechchyna-ne-dozvolyt-vidnovyty-transportuvannia-rosiyskoho-hazu-cherez-pivnichnyy-potik\/\">the German government will not resume the transportation of Russian gas<\/a> through Nord Stream 1 and will not launch Nord Stream 2.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, the former head of Nord Stream 2 and Putin&#8217;s friend Matthias <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/pivnichnyy-potik-2-u-ssha-rozghliadaiut-mozhlyvist-vidnovlennia-hazoprovodu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Warnig is developing a plan to restart the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Europe with the support of American investors<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Recall that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/frantsiia-ta-belhiia-ne-pidtrymaly-zaboronu-na-postachannia-rosiyskoho-hazu\/\">France and Belgium are seeking more guarantees regarding Brussels&#8217; proposal to gradually stop purchasing Russian gas<\/a> by 2027. Thus, the largest buyers of Russian LNG in the EU refuse to support Brussels&#8217; ban on gas supplies.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent meeting of EU representatives, Austrian State Secretary Elisabeth Zehtner urged Brussels to &#8220;leave room for reconsideration of the position on Russian energy supplies&#8221; after peace is achieved. This is reported by the Financial Times. Journalists emphasized that this is the first public initiative of this nature from an EU country that previously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1248010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1247789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1248010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}