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substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3
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"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, in twenty years or so we will actually be 90% dependent on imports of gas. That is quite an achievement. The amount of gas used by the Member States and stocks vary greatly; in other words, the degree to which one is susceptible to a crisis varies very much. The further east a Member State is, the more dependent it will be on gas from Russia.
The European Union has put pressure on Russia to abandon the practice of the dual pricing of energy, including gas, which goes on inside the country. We regard it as a condition of WTO membership. I therefore do not believe that the dual pricing of energy can last very long in Russia’s foreign trade either. Of course, in business deals it is permitted to grant discounts to good, regular customers in general, and that happens in many other sectors, but it obviously depends on the relationship between the seller and the buyer.
Turning off the gas tap was certainly the wrong solution and a very unwise one. Such things are not done in European trading; it does not go on very much in less significant areas, let alone in such major contexts. The situation with regard to energy in the European Union is continually on the verge of a crisis. It only takes a storm on the other side of the ocean or the Ukrainian event to start a crisis or even a panic. We must have viable and diverse energy sources quickly, with a wide range of supply arrangements and networks of conveyance, and time is of the essence: our bedrooms could get cold at any time.
We urgently need the Commission to produce an energy crisis programme. The resources that we now have are not sufficient. How are we preparing for a longer cut in the power supply, Commissioner? What kind of solidarity mechanisms could enter the framework, and does the forthcoming Green Paper deal with energy crisis issues?"@en1
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