Nothing to see here<\/p>\n
Earlier on Thursday German Energy Minister Katherina Reiche had downplayed the impact of the war, saying: \u201cWhat we in Europe don’t have is a physical bottleneck.” She insisted the EU\u2019s gas supplies are still flowing from Norway, the U.S., Kazakhstan and other countries.<\/p>\n
But Reiche said while she doesn’t believe the current situation is as serious as the 2022 shock following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, \u201cthe current situation is also causing us concern,\u201d and that it’s critical for Europe to continue to \u201cmonitor this crisis and make careful decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her comments came as EU leaders met for high-level talks in Brussels on Thursday, with energy one of the top issues.<\/p>\n
In 2022 Germany depended on Russia for more than half of its gas, but now relies on Norway and the Netherlands for the majority, importing some LNG from the U.S. It is not dependent on Qatari LNG.<\/p>\n
Other EU countries including Poland, Italy and Belgium depend on the Middle East country for a larger percentages of their LNG.<\/p>\n
Poland said Thursday its gas supplies “are secured,” adding Qatari LNG only accounts for 10 percent of the country’s total gas supply. “[T]his volume can be gradually supplemented with supplies from other sources, if necessary,” said Grzegorz \u0141aguna, a spokesperson for Poland’s Ministry of Energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nothing to see here Earlier on Thursday German Energy Minister Katherina Reiche had downplayed the impact of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,400,218,1676,249,1406,250,172,1290,175,3164,176,3911,2915,2954,84,427,5227,3551,2637,177,3771,390,235,88,87,396],"class_list":["post-7234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-china","tag-crisis","tag-development","tag-energy","tag-energy-prices","tag-exports","tag-germany","tag-india","tag-industry","tag-iran","tag-italy","tag-kazakhstan","tag-kremlin","tag-lng","tag-markets","tag-military","tag-natural-gas","tag-norway","tag-oil","tag-poland","tag-qatar","tag-russia","tag-security","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116256957065086032","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}