EU to take away Hungary’s gas if an energy crisis comes?
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The European Commission revealed its proposal on Wednesday about how member states should cut gas consumption. But what happens if some member states run out of that energy source? Can the EU take away, for example, Hungary’s gas?
According to the European Commission, the EU has to reduce gas consumption to avoid disruption and strengthen European energy resilience. Therefore, they proposed “a new legislative tool and a European Gas Demand Reduction Plan, to reduce gas use in Europe by 15% until next spring.” The plan affects “all consumers, public administrations, households, owners of public buildings, power suppliers and industry.” They all can and should take measures to save gas, the Commision believes. The Commission will also accelerate work on supply diversification, including joint purchasing of gas to strengthen the EU’s possibility of sourcing alternative gas deliveries, they wrote on Wednesday.
Based on the plan, EU member states need to reduce gas demand by 15% between 1 August 2022 and 31 March 2023. “The new Regulation would also give the Commission the possibility to declare, after consulting Member States, a ‘Union Alert’ on security of supply, imposing a mandatory gas demand reduction on all Member States. The Union Alert can be triggered when there is a substantial risk of a severe gas shortage or an exceptionally high gas demand.
Member States should update their national emergency plans by the end of September to show how they intend to meet the reduction target, and should report to the Commission on progress every two months. Member States requesting solidarity gas supplies will be required to demonstrate the measures they have taken to reduce demand domestically,” the European Commission said.
Portfolio.hu wrote that the number of countries rejecting the European Commission’s plan is increasing. Since the proposal needs a 2/3rd majority, French expert Thierry Bros believes it will not pass. He calculated that the number of states saying no would be around 40 pc. Poland, Portugal, Italy, Spain, France, Malta, Cyprus, and Greece made it clear that they would refuse to accept the EC proposal and Hungary is also expected not to vote for it.
Hungary must not give away its gas to countries that knowingly stopped their imports from Russia. If there is a shortage of gas in some EU countries, they could revitalize the deal with Russia.
Yeah Maria, let’s deal with totalitarian regimes and who knows, maybe we can become one too!
Dear Nottoday, have you every bought articles made in China? The EU happily trades with China yet China is a totalitarian regime. Each country has the right to determine its policies but no country has the right to enact policies that hurt the economy and impoverish the lives of its citizens. Those governments that enact anti nationalist policies should be defeated in the next election.
Delighted to read comments; Voice of Reason. Maria von Theresa.Thank ♥ You.
EU can’t do with without Russian gas, and now EU has screwed up everything with ill considered sanctions. As for Germany to now move member states to help Germany with gas, this because of the German minister of climate Robert Habeck thought he could do without Russia energy, a toddles of 5 has more sense.