Get Real! wrote:Is everyone ready for the great Gas cut?No more energy blackmail - EU chief
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More on Europe's continuing purchases of Russian energy - EU chief Ursula von der Leyen says Russia will no longer be able to use energy to blackmail the continent.
The European Commission president said Russia would not be allowed to demand payment in roubles for its oil and gas, as Moscow has announced, as this would amount to circumventing sanctions.
"This would be a unilateral decision and a clear breach of contract," she said.
"It would be an attempt to circumvent the sanctions. We will not allow our sanctions to be circumvented. The time when energy could be used to blackmail us is over."
Earlier German Chancellor Olaf Scholz also refused to pay for energy in roubles, saying that the currency for payments had already been specified in contracts.
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They are not going to pay in rubles and already decided about that. The Americans promised they will cover their energy needs in LNG form. Which means at triple the cost, which means goodbye to German economy, goodbye to all the EU backbones. I foresee dissolution of EU which is already costing too much to every member